Mount a hardrive manually

Hi
On Mac Os 10.6.8, is it possible to manually mount a external USB hard drive ... Someting I do must be wrong ... for over one year I had a lassi 500 g, it stopped to appear on my desktop, I gave it to a friend and it still works on his PC.
Then I bought a 1 Terra lassi, formatted it for mac, I use it just for time machine ( at least one a month its not mounted ... I deplug and replug and in the worst scenario reformat (3times now) but it works.
Now I'm preparing for Lion, so I put my important file on my Omega PC external drive, it worked for 4 days, now it does not mount also, I'v put it back on my PC and does not mount also.
I'm scared now ... I can not trust my backups ??? How can I manualy month a disk ? Even In disk Utilities the drive does not show.
Antoine

The one that made a strange sound you should see if you can still get it fixed under warranty. (Iomega).
The 2 LaCie drives can always be erased fresh on the Mac, and they should work just fine.
As for the time capsule, it is a solid system, but the drive inside is no different from any other external drive besides having gone through more testing before shipping. To connect to the time capsule on the PC, you'll want to set it up with a short airport name such as "tc" or "timecapsule" and leave spaces out of the name. The reason for that is when you go to connect to it, if you need to set up a drive letter for it and you have to type it in, you'd use the timecapsulename/data. There are many forum postings out there to help you do that. One I found that had some good tips was: http://forums.macrumors.com/showthread.php?t=450448
The nicest thing about the Time Capsule is that you don't have to worry about having a drive connected to the system for it to be able to backup the data. This is especially nice when you have notebook computers.

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Mount USB stick manually

Hi there!
I'm new to Darwin and I'm wondering how to mount a USB flash drive manually. Actually I got the problem that my USB MP3 Player (Fat32 formatted) is being mounted read-only. So I'm looking for the device which has to be mounted. Something like this:
mount -t vfat /dev/DEVICE /mnt/usbdevice -o uid=1000 (how do I get the UID in darwin?)
I tried to get the 'DEVICE' info from /etc/fstab.hd (which should be the same as /etc/fstab in linux ?) when it's mounted automaticly but no success here (it says: 'IGNORE THIS FILE').
That brings me to my second question: Where can I find all mounted devices listed like it's in fstab in other UNIX systems?
I hope that's not to much asking
greetings
z00k

That brings me to my second question: Where can I find all mounted devices listed like it's in fstab in other UNIX systems?
Open Disk utility located in Applications/Utilities. Disk Utility can mount/unmount and eject external media, (and do a lot more).

Smbnetfs manual mount shares returns 'can't allocate memory'

So I have Samba running on my linux computer so that I could access the files on it from my other windows computer. This is all fine and dandy and works. Now when I have another computer thats on Linux and I'm trying to connect to the host machine with
sudo mount -t cifs //192.168.0.142/IPC$ /mnt/networkshare/ -o user=siegemachine,password=xxxx,workgroup=HOME,ip=192.168.0.142
I get
mount error(12): Cannot allocate memory
Refer to the mount.cifs(8) manual page (e.g. man mount.cifs)
The only thing I've found by searching is that if the host is a windows file that you can change the packet size or something within the registry but since its being hosted by a linux computer... I'm not exactly sure what I should check first.
Also, when I cd into the smbnetfs folder in /mnt/smbnet I can see my workgroup (HOME) and when I go into that I see the hostname of my linux computer upstairs. Now, going into that directory and typing ls reveals nothing though.

You've never said what version of Win you're using; however, if it's Win 7 then you'll have to hack the registry and/or the local security policy settings. There are various tutorials on the net to learn how to do this. If you are on Win 7 I strongly suggest you google for
"windows 7" +samba

Have to manually mount... I'm lost...

For some reason, when ever I use either of my cd/dvd drives, I have to mount the thing manually. This is my /etc/fstab:
# /etc/fstab: static file system information
# <file system> <dir> <type> <options> <dump> <pass>
none /dev/pts devpts defaults 0 0
none /dev/shm tmpfs defaults 0 0
/dev/cdrom /mnt/cdrom iso9660,udf ro,user,noauto,unhide 0 0
#/dev/cdrom1 /mnt/cdrom1 iso9660,udf ro,user,noauto,unhide 0 0
/dev/dvd /mnt/dvd udf,iso9660 ro,user,noauto,unhide 0 0
#/dev/fd0 /mnt/fd0 vfat user,noauto 0 0
/dev/sda1 /boot ext2 defaults 0 1
/dev/sda2 swap swap defaults 0 0
/dev/sda3 / ext3 defaults 0 1
/dev/sda4 /home ext3 defaults 0 1
I'm not sure is that will help, because I have Hal installed. When ever I insert a cd or dvd, there is no sign that I have done so, until I run this:
mount -t udf,iso9660 /dev/dvd /mnt/dvd
Afterwards, everything seems normal, but I was just curious as to how I could fix this.
Last edited by Mister Auron (2008-05-10 17:06:21)

hi,
I think you are experiencing this:
http://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=48208
tell me if you aren't using gnome and I'm wrong
bye

Can't manually mount sparse bundle, but time machine works fine

I use an external drive off my AEBS for time machine. Time machine successfully performs backups and I can use time machine itself to browse files starfield (thing). However if I try to manually mount the time machine sparse bundle, it gets stuck at "checking volume" indefinitely. I had tried connecting the disk directly to my MBP with similar results and also tried repairing it but no errors found. I can mount the disk if I just skip "checking volume". I just erased my time machine disk and made a new sparse bundle back up. Same issue still. Any thoughts?

"checking volume" shouldn't last longer than repairing the bundle with disk utility. how long does that take? in any event I don't see that you have an actually problem. there is normally no need to mount the bundle manually and you can do it anyway if you skip verification step. what more do you want?

"Extra" Internal Hard Drives won't mount - swap, /, and /home work.

Hello All,
*** I'm updating my post finally. Sorry it's so long, I'm not entirely sure what is and isn't relevant.
*** Also I think it's a mix up with RAID causing the issue, as I'll address below, but in case I'm wrong I wanted to include the other information that came to mind before I noticed the RAID issue (because the RAID issue doesn't make a lot of sense to me).
First off, I'm running Arch64 and KDE4 with my system up to date. Also I have Gamin installed and not FAM. I use ReiserFS on all of my partitions and drives.
I have six hard drives in my computer, all of which are SATA drives. One is a WD 150GB Raptor with my swap, /, and /home partitions on it, the other five are for extra storage on what I call my media-server (they mount to /media/media-server/1 ,2 ,and so on). They only have one partition each. Of those five the first (/media/media-server/1) is a WD 1TB drive, the other four are WD 500GB drives of identical model.
All of the Raptor's patitions, swap, /, and /home mount just fine.
On top of that the 1TB drive mounts just fine. But the four 500GB drives will not mount at all. They show up in Dolphin, Disk Utility, KwikDisk, KDiskFree, and Partition Manager. However, their size is not shown and/or marked N/A, except in Partition Manager, where their size is shown. They are not seen by 'df'.
Output from 'df':
df -h
Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
udev 10M 308K 9.7M 4% /dev
/dev/sda2 25G 7.7G 17G 32% /
none 4.0G 0 4.0G 0% /dev/shm
/dev/sda3 112G 90G 22G 81% /home
/dev/sdb1 932G 919G 13G 99% /media/media-server/1
*** As for removable media, it's being a bit odd. When I first wrote this post removable media, specifically USB flash drives and SD media cards mounted fine. A while after that they'd show up in Device Notifier, but wouldn't mount. Just a little while ago they wouldn't show up in Device Notifier and wouldn't mount. Now they show up fine and mount fine again. This is possibly unrelated, I'm not sure.
Depending on what method I try to mount my hard drives I either get an 'only root can mount that' error or else a HAL drive busy or already mounted error, followed by a 'drive is not mounted' error when I use umount to double check.
*** Permissions are working better now , Dolphin isn't giving me the 'only root can mount' errors anymore. Still can't mount the drives though.
All of this output is from when the drives are listed in /etc/fstab:
Konsole output:
mount /dev/sdf1
mount: only root can mount /dev/sdf1 on /media/media-server/5
sudo mount /dev/sdf1
mount: /dev/sdf1 already mounted or /media/media-server/5 busy
umount /dev/sdf1
umount: /dev/sdf1 is not mounted (according to mtab)
sudo umount /dev/sdf1
umount: /dev/sdf1: not mounted
Dolphin output:
An error occurred while accessing 'MediaServer5', the system responded: org.freedesktop.Hal.Device.Volume.PermissionDenied: Device /dev/sdf1 is listed in /etc/fstab. Refusing to mount.
Device Notifier output (pops up when I try to mount the drives in Dolphin):
org.freedesktop.Hal.Device.Volume.PermissionDenied: Device /dev/sdf1 is listed in /etc/fstab. Refusing to mount.
Partition Manager:
The file system on partition /dev/sdf1 could not be mounted.
Details
==========================================================================================
Command: mount -v /dev/sdf1 /media/media-server/5
==========================================================================================
mount: /dev/sdf1 already mounted or /media/media-server/5 busy
mount: you didn't specify a filesystem type for /dev/sdf1
I will try type reiserfs
At boot, when the daemons are starting I get:
mount: /dev/sdc1 already mounted or /media/media-server/2 busy
mount: /dev/sdd1 already mounted or /media/media-server/3 busy
mount: /dev/sde1 already mounted or /media/media-server/4 busy
mount: /dev/sdf1 already mounted or /media/media-server/5 busy
This is from when the drives are not listed in /etc/fstab:
Dolphin output:
An error occurred while accessing 'MediaServer5', the system responded: org.freedesktop.Hal.Device.InterfaceLocked: The enclosing drive for the volume is locked
Device Notifier output (pops up when I try to mount the drives in Dolphin):
An error occurred while accessing 'MediaServer5', the system responded: org.freedesktop.Hal.Device.InterfaceLocked: The enclosing drive for the volume is locked
I have tried listing (with the UUID method and the /dev method) and not listing the drives in /etc/fstab, and I have 'hal' and 'dbus' daemons in /etc/rc.conf (and I've tried using only the hal daemon and not the dbus in /etc/rc.conf). I've also tried not listing 'hal', 'dbus', and 'kdm' and only booting to terminal and then mounting the drives manually, that doesn't work either.
Here is my /etc/fstab (back to using UUID's):
# /etc/fstab: static file system information
# <file system> <dir> <type> <options> <dump> <pass>
none /dev/pts devpts defaults 0 0
none /dev/shm tmpfs defaults 0 0
UUID=699cdd5e-3f4a-4b85-8dcb-5d00c00c94a9 swap swap defaults 0 0
UUID=ce94e7a3-3e07-41e5-90d7-1116e5da3121 / reiserfs defaults 0 0
UUID=a1dce435-df90-4f0d-892c-61ff3ea0c8d1 /home reiserfs defaults 0 0
## Media-Server
# media-server/1
UUID=81998a75-f887-4a35-b3fa-e159190f25a3 /media/media-server/1 reiserfs defaults 0 0
#/dev/sdb1 /media/media-server/1 reiserfs defaults 0 0
# media-server/2
UUID=8cdd114a-b190-44f6-9240-1910a5d048f7 /media/media-server/2 reiserfs defaults 0 0
#/dev/sdc1 /media/media-server/2 reiserfs defaults 0 0
# media-server/3
UUID=59164593-b56d-4c49-8837-277b3c392dfb /media/media-server/3 reiserfs defaults 0 0
#/dev/sdd1 /media/media-server/3 reiserfs defaults 0 0
# media-server/4
UUID=ba6007bd-1e36-431c-85f4-857c83845c86 /media/media-server/4 reiserfs defaults 0 0
#/dev/sde1 /media/media-server/4 reiserfs defaults 0 0
# media-server/5
UUID=6fab5364-1acb-4ba3-9f83-bb171a6d398a /media/media-server/5 reiserfs defaults 0 0
#/dev/sdf1 /media/media-server/5 reiserfs defaults 0 0
## VirtualBox USB
none /proc/bus/usb usbfs auto,busgid=108,busmode=0775,devgid=108,devmode=0664 0 0
Here's the daemons line from /etc/rc.conf:
DAEMONS=(syslog-ng !dbus hal network netfs crond wicd openntpd sshd avahi-daemon avahi-dnsconfd samba alsa mysqld lircd mythbackend !mpd !sensors !sensord !fancontrol cups keytouch kdm)
Also, /etc/mtab because only the first media-server drive is listed in it (the one that does mount):
proc /proc proc rw,relatime 0 0
sys /sys sysfs rw,relatime 0 0
udev /dev devtmpfs rw,nosuid,relatime,size=10240k,nr_inodes=1014438,mode=755 0 0
/dev/sda2 / reiserfs rw,relatime 0 0
fusectl /sys/fs/fuse/connections fusectl rw,relatime 0 0
none /dev/pts devpts rw 0 0
none /dev/shm tmpfs rw 0 0
/dev/sda3 /home reiserfs rw 0 0
/dev/sdb1 /media/media-server/1 reiserfs rw 0 0
none /proc/bus/usb usbfs rw,busgid=108,busmode=0775,devgid=108,devmode=0664 0 0
I attempted to add the other drives to /etc/mtab but they get overwritten upon a reboot. I've drived mounting the drives from konsole and dolphin.
All my drives used to work. At one point I had Chakra installed and had this issue after an update, however after thinking about it the problem may have actually started after the power flashed on and off here. I couldn't fix it so I installed Arch64 and KDE4 (the normal KDE from the Arch repos, not KDEMod) thinking maybe it was a Chakra specific issue. That fixed it at the time. It later happened on my Arch install. I reinstalled Arch again and the issue was gone. However the issue is back. Again I think it was after a power outage/flash but it was also after an update that included a kernel update. Best I can remember each time it's happened has been after a kernel update and power flash. So I can't say for sure which is the cause.
Oddly though if I boot from a live disc (in my case a Chakra Live DVD) I can mount and access all of the drives just fine.
Another oddity, is that in 'Disk Utility' (palimpsest) there is a 1.5TB RAID-5 array listed. The only thing I can figure is that that is what is making the individual drives busy.
Here's a screenshot from Disk Utility of the RAID-5 array:
http://theavataroftime.com/sites/defaul … enshot.png
After talking to a friend I remembered that quite a while back (over a year) we had messed around trying to setup a RAID array and dual boot WindowsXP. However, we never could get it working quite right, not even just in Linux without dual booting. I really can't say what all we did/tried, it's been too long. I realize that's not much help but...
Anyway I'm pretty certain I deleted everything RAID related at the time and turned it off. However I must be mistaken or I guess the array wouldn't be showing up.
I apologize, I really know nothing about RAID or RAID controllers. I do have an onboard RAID controller, but it's not a full fledged hardware RAID controller. It's onboard, but doesn't have it's on proccessor like good hardware RAID would. Or that's the way I understand it. Perhaps 'hybrid' is the proper term?
I checked in BIOS and my onboard RAID controller is off.
I take it that my attempts at setting up a RAID array before are still in the MBR (on that note I use GRUB and have never used LILO)? That's the only place I can think of that any leftover RAID configurations wouldn't have been wiped during reinstalling and reformatting the drives and partitions? I've reformatted my drives completely and changed the size of swap, /, and /home on several occasions since then, as well as formatting the media-server drives to ReiserFS (not sure what FS I was using when trying to setup RAID before. Perhaps FAT32 since I was trying to dual boot).
I clicked the stop array button in Disk utility, and then all the options except start array went away. Then I clicked start, and instead of my four media-server drives being listed at the side of Dolphin there was one 1.4TB drive. I rebooted and now it's back to the 4 500GB media-server drives.
I'm worried about losing a bunch of data, so I'm hesitant to start experimenting. How should I go about getting rid of the remnants of the RAID array safely?
Also here's a screenshot of MediaServer5 from Disk Utility. The other 500GB drives have the same info minus the names and labels of course:
http://theavataroftime.com/sites/defaul … enshot.png
*** I had forgotten about dmesg output. It's quite long so instead of copying it, here's a link to it:
http://theavataroftime.com/sites/defaul … /dmesg.txt
Thanks for advice on the matter.
Last edited by The Avatar of Time (2010-10-07 08:27:06)

Thanks for the reply.
Here is my output from the commands you suggested:
fuser -v -m /media/media-server/2
USER PID ACCESS COMMAND
/media/media-server/2:
root kernel mount /
theavataroftime 2518 fr.e. startkde
theavataroftime 2561 Frce. gpg-agent
theavataroftime 2575 .rce. dbus-launch
theavataroftime 2576 .rce. dbus-daemon
theavataroftime 2584 Fr.e. kdeinit4
theavataroftime 2585 Fr.e. klauncher
theavataroftime 2587 fr.e. kded4
theavataroftime 2592 .r.e. kglobalaccel
theavataroftime 2605 .r.e. kwrapper4
theavataroftime 2613 Fr.e. ksmserver
theavataroftime 2622 .r.e. kwin
theavataroftime 2656 fr.e. knotify4
theavataroftime 2658 fr.e. plasma-desktop
theavataroftime 2662 .rce. kuiserver
theavataroftime 2665 .r.e. akonadi_control
theavataroftime 2667 .r.e. akonadiserver
theavataroftime 2670 Fr.e. mysqld
theavataroftime 2714 .r.e. akonadi_contact
theavataroftime 2715 .r.e. akonadi_contact
theavataroftime 2716 .r.e. akonadi_ical_re
theavataroftime 2717 .r.e. akonadi_ical_re
theavataroftime 2718 .r.e. akonadi_maildir
theavataroftime 2719 .r.e. akonadi_maildis
theavataroftime 2720 .r.e. akonadi_nepomuk
theavataroftime 2721 .r.e. akonadi_vcard_r
theavataroftime 2739 .r.e. nepomukserver
theavataroftime 2741 .r.e. nepomukservices
theavataroftime 2747 .r.e. kaccess
theavataroftime 2759 fr.e. krunner
theavataroftime 2765 Fr.e. virtuoso-t
theavataroftime 2772 Fr.e. kio_http_cache_
theavataroftime 2774 .r.e. kmix
theavataroftime 2782 Fr.e. konsole
theavataroftime 2785 .r.e. kjots
theavataroftime 2790 .r.e. bash
theavataroftime 2807 .r.e. kalarm
theavataroftime 2809 fr.e. kopete
theavataroftime 2812 .r.e. polkit-kde-auth
theavataroftime 2815 .r.e. kwin
theavataroftime 2821 .r.e. dolphin
theavataroftime 2822 Fr.e. firefox
theavataroftime 2834 .r.e. kwalletd
theavataroftime 2839 .r.e. kwalletmanager
theavataroftime 2842 Frce. gconfd-2
theavataroftime 2850 .r.e. python
theavataroftime 2854 .rce. wicd-client
theavataroftime 2858 .r.e. klipper
theavataroftime 2861 .r.e. nepomukservices
theavataroftime 2862 .r.e. nepomukservices
theavataroftime 2865 .r.e. nepomukservices
theavataroftime 2867 .r.e. nepomukservices
theavataroftime 2868 .r.e. nepomukservices
theavataroftime 2869 .r.e. nepomukservices
theavataroftime 2870 .r.e. nepomukservices
theavataroftime 2871 .r.e. korgac
theavataroftime 2883 fr.e. kmozillahelper
theavataroftime 2979 .r.e. amarokapp
theavataroftime 2989 .r.e. plugin-containe
theavataroftime 3010 .r.e. npviewer.bin
theavataroftime 3048 Fr.e. kdeinit
theavataroftime 3051 Fr.e. dcopserver
theavataroftime 3053 Fr.e. klauncher
theavataroftime 3055 fr.e. kded
theavataroftime 3075 .r.e. ruby
theavataroftime 3081 fr.e. kio_file
theavataroftime 15311 .r.e. kio_http
theavataroftime 15312 .r.e. kio_http
theavataroftime 15313 .r.e. kio_http
theavataroftime 15314 .r.e. kio_http
theavataroftime 15315 .r.e. kio_http
theavataroftime 15316 .r.e. kio_http
fuser -v -m /dev/sdb1
USER PID ACCESS COMMAND
/dev/sdb1: root kernel mount /media/media-server/1
I ran 'fsck.reiserfs --check' one /dev/sdf1, which is the /media/media-server/5 hard drive.
Here are the results:
fsck.reiserfs --check /dev/sdf1
reiserfsck 3.6.21 (2009 www.namesys.com)
** If you are using the latest reiserfsprogs and it fails **
** please email bug reports to [email protected], **
** providing as much information as possible -- your **
** hardware, kernel, patches, settings, all reiserfsck **
** messages (including version), the reiserfsck logfile, **
** check the syslog file for any related information. **
** If you would like advice on using this program, support **
** is available for $25 at www.namesys.com/support.html. **
Will read-only check consistency of the filesystem on /dev/sdf1
Will put log info to 'stdout'
Do you want to run this program?[N/Yes] (note need to type Yes if you do):Yes
reiserfsck --check started at Mon Sep 27 19:21:20 2010
Replaying journal: Done.
Reiserfs journal '/dev/sdf1' in blocks [18..8211]: 0 transactions replayed
Checking internal tree.. finished
Comparing bitmaps..finished
Checking Semantic tree:
finished
No corruptions found
There are on the filesystem:
Leaves 77863
Internal nodes 474
Directories 2856
Other files 18718
Data block pointers 77184421 (0 of them are zero)
Safe links 0
reiserfsck finished at Mon Sep 27 19:29:03 2010
Also I just used Partition Manager to check /media/media-server/5 as well.
Check and repair partition '/dev/sdf1' (465.76 GiB, reiser)
Job: Check file system on partition '/dev/sdf1'
Command: fsck.reiserfs --fix-fixable -q -y /dev/sdf1
reiserfsck 3.6.21 (2009 www.namesys.com)
** If you are using the latest reiserfsprogs and it fails **
** please email bug reports to [email protected], **
** providing as much information as possible -- your **
** hardware, kernel, patches, settings, all reiserfsck **
** messages (including version), the reiserfsck logfile, **
** check the syslog file for any related information. **
** If you would like advice on using this program, support **
** is available for $25 at www.namesys.com/support.html. **
Will check consistency of the filesystem on /dev/sdf1
and will fix what can be fixed without --rebuild-tree
Will put log info to 'stdout'
reiserfsck --fix-fixable started at Wed Oct 6 22:29:02 2010
Replaying journal: Replaying journal: Done.
Reiserfs journal '/dev/sdf1' in blocks [18..8211]: 0 transactions replayed
Checking internal tree..
***I'm cutting most of this out, it's insanely long: \|/-\|/-\|finished
Comparing bitmaps..Bad nodes were found, Semantic pass skipped
3 found corruptions can be fixed only when running with --rebuild-tree
reiserfsck finished at Wed Oct 6 22:36:43 2010
block 32772: The level of the node (48287) is not correct, (1) expected
the problem in the internal node occured (32772), whole subtree is skipped
block 262149: The level of the node (28423) is not correct, (1) expected
the problem in the internal node occured (262149), whole subtree is skipped
block 11326: The level of the node (63701) is not correct, (1) expected
the problem in the internal node occured (11326), whole subtree is skipped
vpf-10630: The on-disk and the correct bitmaps differs. Will be fixed later.
Check file system on partition '/dev/sdf1': Error
Check and repair partition '/dev/sdf1' (465.76 GiB, reiser): Error
Thanks for the advice.
Last edited by The Avatar of Time (2010-10-07 05:53:05)

Cannot mount multiple CIFS shares in /home

I have 2 users, Joe and Fred, who each have their own directory in /home. I also have a Netapp filer with a CIFS share called CorpData, which has subdirectories for Joe and Fred.
On the Arch Linux box, I have this for my fstab:
# /etc/fstab: static file system information
# <file system> <dir> <type> <options> <dump> <pass>
# /dev/sda1
UUID=d93def89-7611-43c8-a74f-e20bee64bd7e / ext4 rw,relatime 0 1
//10.1.1.141/CorpData/joe /home/joe cifs credentials=/etc/credentials,noserverino,_netdev,uid=joe,gid=users 0 0
//10.1.1.141/CorpData/fred /home/fred cifs credentials=/etc/credentials,noserverino,_netdev,uid=fred,gid=users 0 0
The problem is that at boot time, Joe's directory will be mounted, but Fred's will not. The reverse is true if I reverse the two entries in fstab.
If I issue the "mount -a" command after logging in, the second mount does get mounted, but also generates this error message:
mount error(16): Device or resource busy
Refer to the mount.cifs(8) manual page (e.g. man mount.cifs)
I did refer to man mount, but since only the second mount is failing, I don't know what I could try differently. There are many more directories in CorpData, so I don't want to just mount that entire share on /home.

Looking into this further, it seems that the server is not able to accept the second request so quickly after the first. Is there any way to insert a delay or sleep command between the two mount entries in fstab?

[SOLVED] Suddenly unable to mount samba share using cifs

I have a home server running ArchLinux, hosting an SMB share. My client box is also ArchLinux, both are up to date, running Linux-ck 3.9.2-2-ck. Prior to rebooting both machines around twenty minutes ago, the share mounted fine for months.
Here is the extent of the "verbosity" I receive from mount:
mount error(13): Permission denied
Refer to the mount.cifs(8) manual page (e.g. man mount.cifs)
Here is my fstab:
# /etc/fstab: static file system information
# <file system> <dir> <type> <options> <dump> <pass>
tmpfs /tmp tmpfs nodev,nosuid 0 0
# UUID=71066ae2-40ec-4125-9db7-d04b6a04f712
UUID=71066ae2-40ec-4125-9db7-d04b6a04f712 / ext4 rw,relatime,data=ordered 0 2
# UUID=172faa6a-9cca-4d9e-a0b9-a5da3ea81922
UUID=172faa6a-9cca-4d9e-a0b9-a5da3ea81922 /boot ext2 rw,relatime 0 2
# UUID=65023815-33fc-4ebd-b245-65683201fbcf
UUID=65023815-33fc-4ebd-b245-65683201fbcf /home ext4 rw,relatime,data=ordered 0 2
UUID=1a23d461-fa2b-4ea4-8e58-e7efba3f3bed /media/Storage ext3 rw 0 2
//ARRAY/Array /media/Array cifs credentials=/home/xaero/.smbpasswd,iocharset=utf8,uid=1000,gid=1000,nounix,sec=ntlm 0 0
I have tried any number of different options on that final line defining this share now:
I have tried //array/array (which is what it was originally) and //ARRAY/Array (which is case-sensitive) as well as any combination of using my credentials file (which used to work) or user=,pass= as well changing my credentials file to use quotation marks around my password as it has special characters. I've also read of using sec=ntlm fixing mount issues, but in my case it did not. I'm kind of scratching my head here as passing --verbose to mount yields zero additional information... the uid and gid entries were necessary in the past to mount this share, however I have tried both with and without them, to no avail.
I rely on SMB in lieu of sshfs as there isn't a stable sshfs implementation for Windows users, which there are some on my network; I also find for whatever reason SMB happens to be faster.
Last edited by Xaero252 (2013-05-19 21:45:30)

I'm not exactly sure what fixed this... I looked at the configuration file to make sure I hadn't missed it being updated, and it was in the new format; everything setup correctly (I remember having to edit it not long ago to fix something, probably for the update which you mentioned) I reverted my fstab back to the way it was before (making backups is good) and restarted the smbd on the server numerous times... at some point it just started working again. I wish I had a more concrete answer for documentation sake, but I was literally just rebooting/restarting services in desperation with little to no config hacking between and suddenly things clicked. I'm also no longer running the sec=ntlm option..
Thanks for reminding me to check my config though, when I updated I had forgotten to enable user restriction (guest was enabled, and certain directories weren't user-specific)

Trying to resolve ntlmv errros mounting CIFS network shares via fstab

Kernel: 3.4.2-2
WM: Openbox
About 6 months or so ago, which was after about a year on my current install with no issue, I began getting an ntlmv error when auto mounting samba shares at
boot. Everything still worked but I continued getting an error message.
My fstab entry at that time looked like this:
//<LAN_IP>/<share name>/ /mnt/Serverbox cifs credential=/path/to/file,file_mode=0777,dir_mode=0777 0 0
The error I recieved looked like this:
CIFS VFS: default security mechanism requested. The default security mechanism will be upgraded from ntlm to ntlmv2 in kernel release 3.3
So I did what research I could on the error, found the "sec" option and discovered that adding the "sec=ntlmv2" option to my above noted fstab entry got
rid of the error message and everything still worked perfectly; that is until this weekend.
After upgrading both machines this weekend I noticed a new boot time error message and saw that my shares were no longer being mounted.
relevant boot log:
Mounting Network Filesystems [BUSY] mount error(22): Invalid argument
Refer to the mount.cifs(8) manual page (e.g. man mount.cifs)
relevant everything log:
CIFS VFS: bad security option: ntlmv2
/var/log/pacman from the the weekend's upgrade:
[2012-06-16 13:03] Running 'pacman -Syu'
[2012-06-16 13:03] synchronizing package lists
[2012-06-16 13:03] starting full system upgrade
[2012-06-16 13:10] removed dbus-python (1.0.0-1)
[2012-06-16 13:10] upgraded linux-api-headers (3.3.2-1 -> 3.3.8-1)
[2012-06-16 13:10] Generating locales...
[2012-06-16 13:10] en_US.UTF-8... done
[2012-06-16 13:10] en_US.ISO-8859-1... done
[2012-06-16 13:10] Generation complete.
[2012-06-16 13:10] upgraded glibc (2.15-10 -> 2.15-11)
[2012-06-16 13:10] upgraded bison (2.5-3 -> 2.5.1-1)
[2012-06-16 13:10] upgraded libpng (1.5.10-1 -> 1.5.11-1)
[2012-06-16 13:10] upgraded cairo (1.12.2-1 -> 1.12.2-2)
[2012-06-16 13:10] upgraded libwbclient (3.6.5-2 -> 3.6.5-3)
[2012-06-16 13:10] upgraded cifs-utils (5.4-1 -> 5.5-1)
[2012-06-16 13:10] upgraded sqlite (3.7.12.1-1 -> 3.7.13-1)
[2012-06-16 13:10] upgraded colord (0.1.21-1 -> 0.1.21-2)
[2012-06-16 13:10] installed pambase (20120602-1)
[2012-06-16 13:10] upgraded pam (1.1.5-3 -> 1.1.5-4)
[2012-06-16 13:10] upgraded libcups (1.5.3-4 -> 1.5.3-5)
[2012-06-16 13:10] upgraded cups (1.5.3-4 -> 1.5.3-5)
[2012-06-16 13:10] installed python-dbus-common (1.1.0-2)
[2012-06-16 13:10] installed python2-dbus (1.1.0-2)
[2012-06-16 13:10] upgraded dconf (0.12.1-1 -> 0.12.1-2)
[2012-06-16 13:10] upgraded desktop-file-utils (0.19-1 -> 0.20-1)
[2012-06-16 13:10] upgraded firefox (13.0-2 -> 13.0.1-1)
[2012-06-16 13:10] upgraded freetype2 (2.4.9-2 -> 2.4.10-1)
[2012-06-16 13:10] upgraded initscripts (2012.05.1-3 -> 2012.06.1-1)
[2012-06-16 13:10] upgraded jre7-openjdk-headless (7.u4_2.2-1 -> 7.u5_2.2.1-1)
[2012-06-16 13:10] upgraded jre7-openjdk (7.u4_2.2-1 -> 7.u5_2.2.1-1)
[2012-06-16 13:10] upgraded jdk7-openjdk (7.u4_2.2-1 -> 7.u5_2.2.1-1)
[2012-06-16 13:10] upgraded kdelibs (4.8.4-1 -> 4.8.4-2)
[2012-06-16 13:10] upgraded libdrm (2.4.33-1 -> 2.4.35-1)
[2012-06-16 13:10] upgraded libglapi (8.0.3-2 -> 8.0.3-3)
[2012-06-16 13:10] upgraded liblrdf (0.4.0-9 -> 0.5.0-1)
[2012-06-16 13:10] upgraded libmysqlclient (5.5.24-1 -> 5.5.25-1)
[2012-06-16 13:10] installed khrplatform-devel (8.0.3-3)
[2012-06-16 13:10] installed libegl (8.0.3-3)
[2012-06-16 13:10] upgraded nvidia-utils (295.53-1 -> 295.59-1)
[2012-06-16 13:10] upgraded libva (1.0.15-1 -> 1.1.0-1)
[2012-06-16 13:10] upgraded mkinitcpio (0.9.1-1 -> 0.9.2-2)
[2012-06-16 13:10] >>> Updating module dependencies. Please wait ...
[2012-06-16 13:10] >>> Generating initial ramdisk, using mkinitcpio. Please wait...
[2012-06-16 13:10] ==> Building image from preset: 'default'
[2012-06-16 13:10] -> -k /boot/vmlinuz-linux -c /etc/mkinitcpio.conf -g /boot/initramfs-linux.img
[2012-06-16 13:10] ==> Starting build: 3.4.2-2-ARCH
[2012-06-16 13:10] -> Running build hook: [base]
[2012-06-16 13:10] -> Running build hook: [udev]
[2012-06-16 13:10] -> Running build hook: [autodetect]
[2012-06-16 13:10] -> Running build hook: [pata]
[2012-06-16 13:10] -> Running build hook: [scsi]
[2012-06-16 13:10] -> Running build hook: [sata]
[2012-06-16 13:10] -> Running build hook: [filesystems]
[2012-06-16 13:10] -> Running build hook: [usbinput]
[2012-06-16 13:10] -> Running build hook: [fsck]
[2012-06-16 13:10] ==> Generating module dependencies
[2012-06-16 13:10] ==> Creating xz initcpio image: /boot/initramfs-linux.img
[2012-06-16 13:10] ==> Image generation successful
[2012-06-16 13:10] ==> Building image from preset: 'fallback'
[2012-06-16 13:10] -> -k /boot/vmlinuz-linux -c /etc/mkinitcpio.conf -g /boot/initramfs-linux-fallback.img -S autodetect
[2012-06-16 13:10] ==> Starting build: 3.4.2-2-ARCH
[2012-06-16 13:10] -> Running build hook: [base]
[2012-06-16 13:10] -> Running build hook: [udev]
[2012-06-16 13:10] -> Running build hook: [pata]
[2012-06-16 13:10] -> Running build hook: [scsi]
[2012-06-16 13:10] -> Running build hook: [sata]
[2012-06-16 13:10] -> Running build hook: [filesystems]
[2012-06-16 13:10] -> Running build hook: [usbinput]
[2012-06-16 13:10] -> Running build hook: [fsck]
[2012-06-16 13:10] ==> Generating module dependencies
[2012-06-16 13:10] ==> Creating xz initcpio image: /boot/initramfs-linux-fallback.img
[2012-06-16 13:11] ==> Image generation successful
[2012-06-16 13:11] upgraded linux (3.3.8-1 -> 3.4.2-2)
[2012-06-16 13:11] upgraded lirc-utils (1:0.9.0-16 -> 1:0.9.0-18)
[2012-06-16 13:11] upgraded mesa (8.0.3-2 -> 8.0.3-3)
[2012-06-16 13:11] upgraded mysql-clients (5.5.24-1 -> 5.5.25-1)
[2012-06-16 13:11] upgraded mysql (5.5.24-1 -> 5.5.25-1)
[2012-06-16 13:11] upgraded nvidia (295.53-1 -> 295.59-1)
[2012-06-16 13:11] upgraded opencl-nvidia (295.53-1 -> 295.59-1)
[2012-06-16 13:11] upgraded pango (1.30.0-1 -> 1.30.1-1)
[2012-06-16 13:11] upgraded pcmanfm (0.9.10-1 -> 0.9.10-2)
[2012-06-16 13:11] upgraded psmisc (22.16-1 -> 22.17-1)
[2012-06-16 13:11] upgraded smbclient (3.6.5-2 -> 3.6.5-3)
[2012-06-16 13:11] upgraded thunderbird (13.0-1 -> 13.0.1-1)
[2012-06-16 13:11] upgraded udisks2 (1.94.0-1 -> 1.94.0-2)
[2012-06-16 13:11] upgraded unrar (4.2.3-1 -> 4.2.4-1)
[2012-06-16 13:11] upgraded virtualbox-archlinux-modules (4.1.16-1 -> 4.1.16-2)
[2012-06-16 13:11] In order to use the new version, reload all virtualbox modules manually.
[2012-06-16 13:11] upgraded virtualbox-modules (4.1.16-1 -> 4.1.16-2)
[2012-06-16 13:11] upgraded xine-ui (0.99.6-5 -> 0.99.7-1)
[2012-06-16 13:11] Running 'pacman -Syy'
[2012-06-16 13:11] synchronizing package lists
[2012-06-16 13:12] Running 'pacman -Syu'
[2012-06-16 13:12] synchronizing package lists
[2012-06-16 13:12] starting full system upgrade
[2012-06-16 13:13] upgraded lib32-freetype2 (2.4.9-1 -> 2.4.10-1)
[2012-06-16 13:13] upgraded lib32-gnutls (3.0.19-1 -> 3.0.20-1)
[2012-06-16 13:13] upgraded lib32-krb5 (1.10.1-2 -> 1.10.2-1)
[2012-06-16 13:13] upgraded lib32-libpng (1.5.10-2 -> 1.5.11-1)
[2012-06-16 13:13] upgraded lib32-libx11 (1.4.99.902-1 -> 1.5.0-1)
[2012-06-16 13:13] upgraded lib32-nvidia-utils (295.53-1 -> 295.59-1)
[2012-06-16 13:13] upgraded lib32-sqlite3 (3.7.11-1 -> 3.7.13-1)
[2012-06-16 13:13] upgraded lib32-util-linux (2.21.1-1 -> 2.21.2-1)
[2012-06-16 13:13] upgraded lib32-xcb-util (0.3.8-1 -> 0.3.9-1)
[2012-06-16 13:13] upgraded wine (1.5.5-1 -> 1.5.6-1)
Currently returning to the old fstab entry once again gives the initial error code about the security mechanism being upgraded in kernal release x.x (it always seemed to change with each kernel change) though the shares seem to mount just fine. I've looked through the wiki, man pages on die.net and googled everything I can think of and I find a lot pages mentioning ntlmv errors with no solutions, many telling me that ntlmv and ntlmv2 are mount options, but nothing that gives me any indication on why I might be getting this error or how to go about looking for a solution.
I've looked through the pacman logs on both my desktop and my file server that I'm connecting to in an effort to determine what might have changed and I found that:
the smbclient had been upgraded on both machines so I tried downgrading back to version 3.6.5-2 but there was no change when rebooting.
I also found cifs-utils had been upgraded on the file server. So I downgraded that as well to the previous version (5.4-1), rebooted both machines and I'm still getting the same invalid arguement error.
I've now gone back and upgraded to the most recent versions of the downgraded packages on each machine but I'm at a loss as to what my next steps should be. Where do I go from here to track this down and determine if this is a bug or configuration error. Is there a cleaner way of mounting these shares that I should be using instead of fstab?
Thank you.

I had the same issue. After upgrading kernel to 3.4.5 today the cifs share mounted with original fstab settings. I believe it was caused by this bug:
kernel changelog wrote: The double delimiter check that allows a comma in the password parsing code is
unconditional. We set "tmp_end" to the end of the string and we continue to
check for double delimiter. In the case where the password doesn't contain a
comma we end up setting tmp_end to NULL and eventually setting "options" to
"end". This results in the premature termination of the options string and hence
the values of UNCip and UNC are being set to NULL. This results in mount failure
with "Connecting to DFS root not implemented yet" error.

How Do I find out what app is auto-mounting a network share and stop it?

I have a new laptop, the 13" rMBP. I installed Steam and wanted to use the network share on my server to store the game files. Everything went OK. I closed Steam, disconnected the share and shutdown my laptop. When I opened my laptop later on at work, it started to try and mount the network share.It keeps on going it. I removed the Steam app and all files related to Steam that I could find. I've looked at fstab, auto_home, auto_master and a large list of other files and directories and I *still* cannot find the offending file that's auto-mounting the share. It's really frustrating.
The share auto-mounts when I am home but not on the desktop or in finder. I find it by looking at /Volumes/ in terminal. If I mount the share manually under /Volumes/ it shows as Games-1 and mounts on the desktop under Games.
Does anyone have any ideas on where I should be looking to find the offending process/file/daemon?
Thank you!
Trevor

thanks for the reply but are you sure about this? What difference would it make? Why 5 apps?
Even if it does work, which I doubt, at some point, I will have to resync ALL my apps again and surely the same thing will happen again, and I will be none the wiser. I still won't know which app it is. There must be a way of finding this out.
Any ideas?
What is really freaking me out is how it is connecting to my carrier (who is charging me) with Cellular data switched off.......?
Thanks again.

SL server share mounting not working for 10.7.4 Mac Mini

I'm running about seven Macs on a network with a 10.6.8 Mac Mini server.
The older Macs (PPCs and 10.4.11) mount the share immediately.
Newer Macs recently have had a problem.
My 10.6.8 MBP can mount the share, from a dock icon, but it can take minutes.
Another Mac Mini (10.7.4) now refuses to mount the share manually. It can't make contact with the server share. I've tried via Ethernet and WiFi. It just hangs with Connect to Server.
And yet, it has no problem with the iCal server running on the server.
Another older MB and 10.6.8, mounts the share immediately.
Has anyone had newer hardware with 10.7.4 develop server connection problems?

Hi iToaster,
These were all good tips, and I tried or investigated them.
As it turns out, I noticed my SL Mac server needed a Java and securtiy update.
After installing, mount time on my Lion and SL client Macs was near normal, not minutes. (Again, my older Macs had mounted the server share quickly and normally, when the newer ones did not.)
My suspicion is that a modern OS sensed that the Java and security updates were not in place and took extra time to check the share mount in some manner.
Thank you for your time, experitse and ideas, iToaster!

The backup disk image could not be mounted - I found the cure?!

Hi all,
being a recent Windows to Mac convert I was very happy about my new MBP together with a brand new 1 GB TimeCapsule. First time, worked like a charm backup and restore. Then, last backup with 10.5.2, install 10.5.3, "Backup now" - nothing. I was pretty p*ssed and thought: that is exactly why I didn't want to use Windows anymore. I thought, Apple can't be doing the same cr@p as the Redmond dudes. Well, they did. Soon after 10.5.3 was out word had it that 10.5.4 as already around the corner so I figured, I'll wait for it. Just to be disappointed. After hoping for a solution in these forums none of the just re-assign the backup drive solutions worked for me.
Having found a solution somewhere about mounting the TC manually I managed to run backups again which clearly showed that the fr@cked it up as it indicated a stupid permission issue. I then took a look at the error message again:
"Network mountpoint /Volumes/Time Capsule not owned by backupd... remounting"
So I went and looked for that backupd and found it within /System/Library/CoreServices. Knowing that it did work last with 10.5.2 I figured, let me grab the 10.5.2 combo update and restore the backupd + the backup.bundle from the old version and give it a shot (making backup copies of them first).
Sure enough, told it to install them 2 to the default location, re-selected the TimeCapsule as backup target, hit "Start Backup" et voilà: currently "Backing Up: 1.4 GB of 5.1 GB"
Bottom line: Apple messed up the backupd binary somehow - way to go, QA team!
Anywho, seems to be working now. Also access is working at this point. Have to recheck if Time Machine still works if the TC is not mounted due to the running backup.
Maybe someone else can verify this to see if it helps them too?
Cheers!

Actually the path is shown in the system log. (My log had just rolled over and I didn't see the exact error message anymore - had used "locate" to find it)

USB ports failing to mount an external hard drive, recognize a printer.

Hello,
I have a Mac Mini running 10.5.8. Suddenly the usb ports do not mount external hardrives (I have 2) and also do not recognize an Hp printer. If I plug the keyboard an the mouse, they are recognize and useful. Firewire mounts one of my firewire enable drive. The other drive can be mounted through the disk option in the Airport Extreme Base Station. I can tell that the hard drives are fine. I have performed all resets mentioned in other forums. I reinstalled last major combo update but nothing seems to work. Any ideas?
Thanks a lot.
PS I forgot to tell you that I also use a powered usb hub.

Did you try things in this link?
DALE

Motherboard fan mount needed

Hello, I am trying to repair a family members desktop (HP Pav. 6240f). Complaint was : not able to complete boot. Machine constantly shutting down. Upon inspection machine was indeed shutting down soon into booting up. Found a problem with the motherboard. The heat sink and fan assembly had loosened from its mount. The mount had crumbled into pieces, I am assuming due to heat? My attempt at repairing the problem would be to find a replacement mount, apply paste and re-assemble. I am assuming the system shutdown was exactly what it was supposed to do. I am not a computer tech, had some electronic training in the USMC and work with my hands, figured I give it a try. I have looked on-line, but haven't come up with a replacement. I would appreciate any help available in regard to this problem THANK YOU.

Let's try to walk you through some points, as I understand it.
The CPU chip is mounted into it's Socket 775. The heatsink has thermal paste for heat transfer.
From what I see of the mount (upgrade/service manual) there are 4 posts that secure the physical heatsink/fan, called retension clips, found here. Are these want your asking about?
References: HP p6240f
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Script parses, but some drives don't mount?

I have Kanaka 2.7 working and mounting volumes from one server, but it won't mount the drive located on another server. I can go to the Mac and mount the drive manually, so I know the login and AFP protocols are working correctly.
Any ideas?

See anything interesting in the Kanaka engine logs? Have you tried more
than one user? Have any other (dev/test/qa/prod) environments that work
differently? What are these two servers running, OS, SPs, services, etc.?
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