Acer Aspire One access NAS?

[DreXeL]

Hi, I've just bought an Acer Aspire One 8GB, it comes with 'Linpus Lite' preinstalled. It's a great little machine and the O/S is nice and easy to navigate, but being a total linux noob I've yet to work out how to browse my network, I'd specifically like to point the default music and pictures icons to the pictures and music folders on my NAS drive (SAMBA).

Any help would be appreciated

 

[Septh]

You should be able to do this by editting your /etc/fstab file, which is all the drives you have and a mount point, I auto mount all my NAS shares into /home/mac/Documents, /home/mac/music etc, heres a sample line:
//192.168.1.127/Media /media/Media cifs username=username,password=password,iocharset=utf8,file_mode=0777,dir_mode=0777 0 0
That will only work with cifs installed though, so you may need to lookup if you have it installed by default, if not get it
its fairly obvious what each bit does in it, you just need to edit the location, mount point and username/password

 

[yashiro]

Don't really know how Linpus is setup but first try smb://serverip/ from an address bar. Or smbclient -L //serverip from terminal.
Just to see if you're connected.

Here's a clearer example of the above posters trick http://www.cyberciti.biz/faq/configure-a-system-to-automount-a-samba-share-with-etcfstab/
If -t smbfs fails, try cifs and always mount it to some folder in your home dir.

or as found elsewhere you could do:

Create mount point within Linux file system e.g. /mnt/ntserver ( md /mnt/ntserver )
Open text editor ( nano, pico, joe etc.) and type:
mount -t smbfs -o username=giveusernamehere,password=prividepwdhere //SERVER/share /mnt/ntserver
save file as sambashare
Open terminal and type: chmod a+x sambashare to make shell script executable .
To mount Windows share Linux users can open terminal, login as root (su) and type:

./sambashare which will mount the SERVER's share folder to /mnt/ntserver.

Exact same script :
mount -t smbfs -o username=giveusernamehere,password=prividepwdhere //SERVER/share /mnt/ntserver
you can include as a last line in /etc/rc.d/rc.local file to run on startup

More random tips
http://www.aspireoneuser.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=13&t=1612
http://macles.blogspot.com/
http://www.aspireoneuser.com/forum/viewforum.php?f=1
http://jorge.ulver.no/2008/08/06/acer-aspire-one-tips-and-tricks/

 

[Septh]

I prefer fstab, because its painlessly automatic, but I use a mount script for my laptop as I take it all over the place