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Title: Receiving Authentication error while trying to use the mount command
Post by: lookingforinfo on July 07, 2010, 09:23:30 AM

I have my DNS-323 working with my OS X system through the GUI interface. I am now trying to mount the device at the command prompt and I am receiving the message "Authentication error".  I have tried it numerous times and it can not be a typo every time.

My environment is OS X 10.6.4; DNS-323 is at FW 1.08.
Prior to testing I created a mount point  with "mkdir /volumes/dlink"

I have tried both mount -t smbf and mount_smbf.  The mount_smbf command was
mount_smbf //username:userpw@192.168.1.102/Volume_1 /volumes/dlink

The full reply message was:
mount_smbfs: server rejected the connection: Authentication error

Any suggestions would be appreciated.

Title: Re: Receiving Authentication error while trying to use the mount command
Post by: lookingforinfo on July 07, 2010, 05:13:11 PM

Some additional information to my original post.  I have noticed that the mount point I created, /Volumes/dlink was created with a "+" at the end of the permissions to indicate that it was part of OS X Access Control Lists.  When I moved the mount point to ~/mnt I still received the same message that the server rejected the connection: Authentication error. 

To gunrunnerjohn, I have also tried  ...@192.168.1.102/mnt/HD_2a in place of ...@192.168.1.102/Volume_1.  I get the same results.

Title: Re: Receiving Authentication error while trying to use the mount command
Post by: lookingforinfo on July 08, 2010, 02:46:08 PM

I would like to close this topic and report that I have solved the problem.  I can now use a Mac OS X terminal session and mount a volume on my DNS-323.  To the mount statement I added two options, nodev and nosuid, and substituted the device name I assigned to the DNS-323 for its IP address.  The mount command is:

mount_smbfs -o nodev,nosuid //username:userpw@devicename/Volume_1/directory ~/mnt

Since Time Machine will not work without hacks, I plan to use the BSD commands within OS X to schedule jobs that will copy and compress directories on the Mac and write them to the DNS-323.  On a different schedule, I plan to copy the compresses files on Volume_1 to Volume_2.  Yes, I still have to worry about the house burning down, so I will address that issue in the future.

Lastly, I want to thank gunrunnerjohn for posting his views on why not to use Raid 1.

Peace..