Posted: Sat Jul 14, 2012 22:45 Post subject: Mounting SAMBA Drive in Mac OS X Mountain Lion
Hopefully, this will help others set up their drives in Mac OS X Mountain Lion. This may also work in Lion.
My setup:
- Mac OS X Mountain Lion running on an iMac
-- WiFi turned off, connected through Ethernet to router
- Netgear WNDR3400 router running DD-WRT V24-SP2 (4/7/12) Big
- 1.5TB External USB drive with two MS-DOS FAT32 partitions connected to router USB connection
Router setup:
- USB setup as follows:
-- Core USB Support enabled
-- USB Drive Support enabled
-- Automatic Drive Mount enabled
-- Disk Mount Point is /mnt
- NAS set up as follows:
-- Samba enabled
-- Server String is "ACSamba"
-- Workgroup is "WORKGROUP"
-- Shares path set up for each partition, "Public" unchecked, Access = Read/Write
-- Users set up with name and password
Once I rebooted the router, I opened Finder then went to the menu bar: Go->Connect to Server... I entered SMB://router ip address and was prompted for the username and password I set up in the NAS tab of the router. The USB drive partitions popped up and I was off and running.
I spent a day figuring this out - struggling with Terminal commands "mount" and "mount_smbfs" until I stumbled into this much simpler method...
You're most welcome! I'm glad you found this useful. There's definitely a lot of excellent information in these forums and elsewhere but I found it difficult to piece it together for my setup. I thought there must be at least one other person with the same rig as I have that will benefit...
Posted: Wed Oct 10, 2012 8:24 Post subject: Re: Mounting SAMBA Drive in Mac OS X Mountain Lion
dborja wrote:
- NAS set up as follows:
-- Samba enabled
-- Server String is "ACSamba"
-- Workgroup is "WORKGROUP"
-- Shares path set up for each partition, "Public" unchecked, Access = Read/Write
-- Users set up with name and password
Thanks dborja for your how-to! I have a problem though. I'm running DD-WRT on a TP-Link TL-WR1043ND. It also features a USB port. I would like to share an HD on my network plugging it in the router, but no way.
My concern is that in the Services>NAS setting there is no mention to SAMBA or whatever... just FTP server/ProFTPD... what is it so?
What should I do?
what version and firmware are you running? _________________ Please state what make and model router plus the build number and type of DD-WRT you are using. Screen prints and a network diagram can are also helpful. Before you create a new post, use the search function. Chances are your issue has happened to someone else.
i don;t believe std build has USB support so no Samba server. you need a USB/NAS version or Big or Mega. _________________ Please state what make and model router plus the build number and type of DD-WRT you are using. Screen prints and a network diagram can are also helpful. Before you create a new post, use the search function. Chances are your issue has happened to someone else.
check out the links in my signature _________________ Please state what make and model router plus the build number and type of DD-WRT you are using. Screen prints and a network diagram can are also helpful. Before you create a new post, use the search function. Chances are your issue has happened to someone else.
i don;t believe std build has USB support so no Samba server. you need a USB/NAS version or Big or Mega.
Hold your horses..
WR1043ND is Atheros based and there are no builds named after the flash size as for Broadcom.
WR1043ND has 8MB flash and the std build for it corresponds to a Broadcom Mega feature wise.
@mc_jacopo
You are in the wrong forum section and you are running a very old build, pop over to the Atheros section and browse a bit - you will find both recommendations of recently built firmware version and download links for them. _________________ Kernel panic: Aiee, killing interrupt handler!
for your how-to! I have a problem though. I'm running DD-WRT on a TP-Link TL-WR1043ND. It also features a USB port. I would like to share an HD on my network plugging it in the router, but no way.