Connecting to a NAS

In this user case we are attempting to connect to an Iomega NAS box sat on a home network. The following information is probably useful:

• Linux distro to connect from – Mint 14
• You need to know the IP address of the NAS box before you start
• smbmount is no longer used

OK, so to do this we first install cifs-utils

sudo apt-get install cifs-utils

Then we mount the file system, having created a mount point

mkdir my_mount_point

sudo mount -t //ip_address_of_nas/directory_to_mount directory_used_as_mountpoint -o user=any_registered_nas_user

Then test it by creating and copying across a file

touch testfile

cp testfile mountpoint/directory_required

Things I’d like to know:

• How do you find the NAS IP address from within Linux?

UPDATE: the best way I have found to do this is to install nmap

apt-get install nmap

and then run a scan for IP followed by a scan for  the operating system on the IP address of interest

nmap -sP 192.168.1.0/24

nmap -O 192.168.1.119

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