Hey guy's I just installed suse 10.2 on my laptop and man it looks good, when they said polished they were'nt kiddin, and everything went real well but it didnt set up my Buffalo linkstation network attached storage. Since the other distro's Ive used since I set up this network have configured this by default I don't really know what to look for to set this up.
The error message says that it might by a firewall issue. Do I have to open a port in the firewall ( Please say no , IPTables scares me ) or maybe suse doesn't install/ set up samba or cifs or whatever by default. I really have no idea were to look for a fix but its kinda important to set this up cuz my printer's plugged in the back for sharing.
Thanks for any help

Hi,

if I get you rigth, you want to configure your NAS? After that, you want to mount your configured NAS?

You won't have to open any port on your firewall. You configure your NAS using the web interface of your NAS, that won't have anything to do with your firewall, because the firewall will not differ between browsing a web page in the internet and browsing your NAS-configration page.

I think your NAS may be in another subnet, so you cannot access it. Have you already checked the connection?
By default, your NAS should have an IP in the range of 192.168.x.x, (in Subnet 255.255.255.0), so your client has to be in the same subnet.
Please check this out, if you can ping your NAS you can be sure there is no connection issue. In the next step you can try to connect your NAS via telnet.

Greets

Shaddy

Thanks for the reply
I'm not at my box right now but just give me a little time and when I get home I'll check that out and read up a little on subnets and pinging.

"You won't have to open any port on your firewall. You configure your NAS using the web interface of your NAS, that won't have anything to do with your firewall, because the firewall will not differ between browsing a web page in the internet and browsing your NAS-configration page."

So you think that I just have to set up samba, that maybe suse installs samba but doesnt configure it?
I think mI've read that I can use SWAT to configuire via web?

"I think your NAS may be in another subnet, so you cannot access it. Have you already checked the connection?"

If it helps my network is basically just a switch thats conected to a desktop running Kubuntu and the storage thats, I believe, fat32 and the printers plugged in the back of the storage via usb

Ok I tried entering 192.168.2.3 and it gave me the configuration/ set up screen for the Buffalo NAS but when I try smb://hd-laned2/share it gives me "Time out on server"

The first time you connect via IP, the second time you use the NAS-Name. Be sure that your client resolves the name correctly, for that you can try smb://192.168.2.3/share.

On the other side, you don't need to have samba installed. Samba is a service, for that, it has to run on the server side, in your case on the NAS. You have to have samba client installed on your PC, but I think that is standard, and there is nothing to configure.

Is your NAS already configured? Does the share //192.168.2.3/share exist?

Greetings

Shaddy

Sorry for the late response, work got hectic.
" Is your NAS already configured? Does the share //192.168.2.3/share exist?"
Sweet that worked! But hd-hlaned2/share didn't so I guess its not resolving names. Not a big deal if I can still config my printer using the IP, I'll give that a shot tomorrow.