dimanche 6 avril 2008
Using Iomega Home network Disk Drive 500 GB with GNU/Linux (Debian testing)
Par obergix, dimanche 6 avril 2008 à 21:49 :: General
I have purchased a Iomega Home network hard drive 500 GB, to use it as a NAS.
There have been problems to use it with my GNU/Linux Debian (testing) desktop, but I think I now can have a working setup, even if it's a bit of a hack.
The following informations were posted initially to http://www.iomegasupportforums.com/phpbb2/viewtopic.php?p=33985#33985 for the curious ones.
First I should say I upgraded the firmware (now I have K104.W11).
To check if the drive is accessible through SMB/CIFS :
# findsmb
*=DMB
+=LMB
IP ADDR NETBIOS NAME WORKGROUP/OS/VERSION
... at least on my network, it's like that (you may not have the same output... it changed after I installed the most recent FW)
Now, to try and see the shares (here, I have a PUBLIC dir exported via SMB) :
# smbclient -N -L '//STORAGE-3806' Domain=[WORKGROUP] OS=[] Server=[] Sharename Type Comment---- PUBLIC Disk IPC$ IPC Domain=[WORKGROUP] OS=[] Server=[] Server Comment---- Workgroup Master----
Note that the -N flag is to disable password prompt for smbclient.
Attention : "Weak authentication" may be disabled for SMB clients in your Distro... as it is on mine (Debian testing).
So if you try the following command (or alike) and get an error with authentication, then there may be something to try.
Symptom :
# smbclient -W WORKGROUP '//STORAGE-3806/PUBLIC' Password: Domain=[WORKGROUP] OS=[] Server=[] Server requested LANMAN password (share-level security) but 'client use lanman auth' is disabled tree connect failed: SUCCESS - 0
Workaround :
So try copying /etc/samba/smb.conf (or similar, I'm on Debian) to for example /root/iomega-cmb.conf, and add, in the [global] section these two lines (or changing existing lines) :
client plaintext auth = yes client lanman auth = yes
Now smbclient -s iomega-smb.conf -W WORKGROUP '//STORAGE-3806/PUBLIC' will accept your password.
Also, as I've struggled with trying to access the drive in Nautilus using smb:// URI.
It wouldn't work on my Debian system since "weak" authentication was disabled in the samba default configuration file.
I've found a way to access it anyway : You first have to create a file named ~/.smb.smb.conf.append, and add the following inside it :
[global] client plaintext auth = yes client lanman auth = yes
Then you will be able to access it through URI like : smb://WORKGROUP:guest:xxxx@192.168.0.2/PUBLIC in Nautilus
(assuming you put your password instead of the xxxx) or smb://WORKGROUP:guest@192.168.0.2/PUBLIC, and answer the password prompt (which will be stored in the gnome keyring).
Cool... my NAS is usable at last.
Update 2008/04/13 :
I have tried to use it with a CIFS mounted filesystem on my desktop, and experienced a kernel oops with kernel 2.6.24 (Debian testing)... so had to revert back to 2.6.22 to be able to mount it. More details in Debian bug #463402.
