Mounting WDMycloud shares in Linux Mint

My Cloud OS 3 Personal & Network Attached Storage My Cloud EX4
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I am able to access my shares from Linux Mint 18.1 but can’t figure out how to auto mount them using FSTAB or even the command line. I tried:
sudo mount -t cifs //192.168.1.20/Music /mnt/WD_Music -o username=username,password=password,iocharset=utf8

and get this error:
mount error(112): Host is down

I want to be able to mount the shares so they can be mapped within Crossover Linux. I have tried the above IP address as well as WDMycloud.local and neither work. The host is NOT down and I am able to access files using the file browser in Mint (as well as from my MacBook). Also, I can access the WDMycloud dashboard via the IP address. Can someone tell me how to get past this obstacle?

My NAS firmware: WDMyCloud v04.04.05-101 : Core F/W

Thanks in advance.

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Hello,

I have never tried this since Linux is not a supported OS. Lets see if another user who has experience with Linux can comment on this.

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I can mount all the shares from my two ex4 with a line in the /etc/fstab like this one :

//192.168.3.205/Archives /home/XXXuser/WD3/Archives cifs noauto,users,credentials=/home/XXXXuser/nascredfile,dir_mode=0777,file_mode=0777,rw 0 0

and the nascrecfile in the user contains three lines :

username=XXXXuser
password=XXXXuser
domain=XXXXX

don’t avoid the third line !

another way is a line in /etc/fstab (that is for external USB drive)

//192.168.3.205/ASMT1153E-1 /home/XXXuser/WD3/USB3 cifs noauto,users,username=XXXXuser,password=XXXXuser,uid=1000,gid=1000,iocharset=utf8,dir_mode=0777,file_mode=0777,rw 0 0

and of course the directories in the user, here “WD3/Archives”

Then Systemtools->Disk Management and “User Mount Tool” is easy.
My two NAS have fixed addresses.

Host is down, i see that when the NAS is not yet ready.

Good luck

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PS maybe as I use “noauto” the NAS had enough time to get fully ready and available

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Well, after upgrading (kernel, samba and maybe others) usermount don’t work anymore.
Nothing modified in configuration files (nascredfile or fstab)

I have a wireshark capture stating "STATUS_MORE_PROCESSING_REQUIRED’

command line instruction has no better luck.

FileZilla is working fine (FTP) and I can access my two NAS with Firefox, browse the shares and download files.

Btw I am running Fedora 25.

Any idea to restore the mounts ?
Really enjoying my WDEX4 (no kidding)

See you later.

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I just cleared the group name in WDEX4 and suddenly after using smbclient -L
all my shares are visible and can be mounted again

7

Could you explain what you did more explicitly? What does “cleared the group name in WDEX4” mean? My shares are already visible on my computers ,but can’t be mounted successfully,

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On the users page, at the right of users tab, there is a Groups list.
Write down the name of the the group, clear it and reboot the EX4.