I have purchased a while ago two WDSharespace 4TB and connected them in my home network.
After a while I got a multimedia player (Dvico Tvix) and connected it on lan to watch movies.
Everything went smooth for a few months when all heaven got loose - the tvix could not access any storage
I narrowed down the issues to NFS system - I have changed the cables - routers - factory defaults
- recreated partitions - update software/firmware on all sides.
What is enormously strange is the storages would work just fine on nfs only on a apple airport extreme (i don’t want one - I already have like 5 routers at home)
The log entries are :
(WDShareSpace daemon.notice mountd[840]: authenticated mount request from 192.168.1.34:923 for /DataVolume)
What happened? Why won’t it work anymore?
Well, I’m really taking a stab at this, but if you are traversing a router with the firewall enabled, that is, a connection is incoming into one (of 5?) routers, then the firewall could be blocking this if you are using active FTP from the client. Your client must be in Passive mode (PASV) as that’s what the sharespace uses from what I can tell. See:
http://slacksite.com/other/ftp.html
Oh, You will have to open port 21 on the router if it is disabled. This is for INCOMING connections, only.
If none of this applies, you’ll have to be sure FTP access is authorized from the sharespace’s perspective. It’s in “Advanced Mode->Storage->Folder Shares”. Enable for specified users.
HTH,
–dennis
So … I’m having nightmares with this issue …
The config consists of one WD Sharespace - one router for dhcp only - and one or more clients TVIX.
It seems that the issue relates only to nfs … as upnp is working and the sharespace is accessible with the pc.
What puzzles me is the entries in the sharespace log when I try to open a file - the entries are at 10 seconds apart - same message repeated a few times (like the one in my first post).
Thanks
I don’t know anything about TVIX, but if it is trying to NFS mount a directory on the sharespace, the user must enter a correct username and password AND must have access to that directory and a valid account…
So a client must answer some kind of NFS “challenge” with a user/password.
This is all I could find on TVIX and FTP (seems dated).
http://www.tvix.co.kr/eng/faq/Default.aspx?act=RD&id=136&pg=1
–dennis
Thanks for the reply… but the link you mentioned relates to ftp … Nfs protocol has to point to a public folder so no password is required…
