Networked hard drive

[Patrick Doyle]

On 3/15/07, Anne Wilson <cannewilson at googlemail.com> wrote:
> I've bought a drive with usb and network connection.  I used the usb to
> quickly transfer a large quantity of data, but intended putting it onto the
> network after that.  The blurb on the box said it would just pick an ip by
> dhcp.  However, it seems to me that I need to know something about it in
> order to mount it, and I've got a total blank on where to go next.  Nothing
> appears in /var/log/messages.
>
> I've told the router to reserve an address for it and made an entry
> in /etc/hosts.  Since I can't see any sign of it being recognised I haven't a
> clue how to mount it.  Any ideas?
>
I'm certain you'll get answers from folks with more direct experience
in this sort of thing than I, but I'll toss my $.02 just so you can
start looking around in the mean time.

Given the market share of Windows PC's, your hard drive is probably
advertising itself as a Windows share of some sort.  There are
probably LInux based tools to "browse" the windows network and to
attach to your hard drive -- they may even be integrated into
Gnome/KDE at this point.

As a last ditch effort, you could turn on a packet sniffer (assuming
that the drive and your sniffer are on the same ethernet segment and
not separated by a switch) and look for the SMB advertisement blocks.

--wpd