NASLite Network Attached Storage

I purchased and setup a old machine with 3 disks and a cdrom. The configuration and all goes fine and NASlite+ 1.2 formatted the disks. The overview screen says everything is fine and the appliance is ready to go.

I can telnet from my mac to the naslite server no problem and can adjust the settings as I wish.

When I go to SMB or NFS from the "CONNECT TO SERVER" option in finder and enter the IP (smb://192.168.2.81/export/disk-1 ) it asks me for the username and password (I have set the domain to WORKGROUP in NASlite and this is the default in the popup window). No combination of username and pw works. I dont know what it is.

This is for either SMB or NFS.

How can I get to my disks!?

I am using Tiger by the way

With Windows, typing something like:

"\\192.168.2.81"

at the "Run" command connects to the NAS server and let's me map individual drives. (When I do this, an Explorer window opens up showing me a directory of the NASLite+ server.)

Is there something similar in OSX?

The correct syntax is: smb://192.168.2.81/Disk-1 or nfs://192.168.2.81/export/Disk-1

In addition, there is an issue with the latest release of OS-X. Tale a look at this post:

http://www.serverelements.com/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=283

I tried both syntax's and get the same request for a username and pw. I checked out that post and I cant understand what it says to do:

Can someone deciper this part for me: (exactly WHAT do I do to complete this task)


If you are *really absolutely certain* you want mount_smbfs to use plaintext passwords you can try this, but it's obviously a huge security hole:
What does "you want mount_smbfs" mean?


sudo vi /etc/nsmb.conf (NOTE! not smb.conf)
Where do I type this line (i'm assuming in the terminal editor)

[default]
minauth=none

save the file ( :wq in vi)

I can get into the editor, but cant get out to save the 'file. what does :wq in vi mean?


If this works, then anybody can read your password via tcpdump. It's really a lot better to get the server to use ese encryption if possible.


After this, mount_smbfs will try plaintext passwords if the server requires it, but should use NTLMV1, NTLMv2, or kerberos if appropriate. However, some servers might expect plaintext passwords in ascii and others expect utf-16 (like ascii but each ascii character is followed by a zero). If the server expects utf-16 it won't work with Tiger, at least at this time.
what does this below paragraph mean?

Thanks
bdo

Thanks to badbug I got it working.

For those in the future using Mac OSX TIGER to use NASLite+, here is what you have to do to get it working.

Go to UTILITIES -> TERMINAL
In Terminal, type the following:

sudo vi /etc/nsmb.conf (this will open a file called nsmb.conf it the etc directory)

Then edit that file and have it say the following:

[default]
minauth=none

After you've typed that, hit ":" then w, then ":" again and q.

Enter your username and password and save.

Then reboot and you will be able to connect to your disks using no name and password.

Hope that helps the future Tiger OSX users.