NASLite Network Attached Storage

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With great thanks so far for all the help i have my Nasbox running ok and i can access it by ftp/telnet/http all ok from my Mac And all 3 drives are accessible by FTP fine.

Now my next question is how (or if its even possible) to have the drives appear in Mac OS normally? Ie so one could drag/drop copy/paste files to and thro from server to computer? Without having to FTP everything. Ideally the 3 disks would show up in Mac Finder (same as windows explorer) as 3 remote drives.

Having read through the manual i think i seen how to do it, but so far cant get it to work. If i try the method shown to access disk on Mac OS which is

nfs://192.168.0.XXX/export/disk-1

All i get is "could not connect to server, name or password is incorrect" I tried same with smb and get similar error. So thus far my only way to access drives on NAsbox is via a ftp program, which of course works fine, but would easier and more convenient if the appeared as additional drives to computer.

I havent yet tried to setup access on my flatmates XP PC yet, but had planned to get him access to the same drives as well.

Thanks as always

The path is case sensitive so make sure you type exactly as necessary:

nfs://192.168.0.XXX/export/Disk-1

Arrgghh
<<<Hides in corner under a duvet embarressed !!!

Thanks Tony, spot on!!

Now to get the automount sorted in MAC

One more thing

Why am i getting some odd drive stats?
I have:
1x80gb Sata (naslite showing as 70gb)
2x160gb Sata (nasliote showing as 150gb)
Would any changes to raid setup in bios change that?

Also finally (well for tonight!) i assume i cant add a new drive to Naslite without it formatting it? Reason being i have a FULL 250gb Ata drive which has my data on it and i wanted that data on the server? I assume i would have to transfer it all over now to server then?

The drive makers call a 1000 bytes a 1K Byte, In the computer world it is actualy 1024 bytes to 1K Byte. Hence the discrepancy.

Mike

Yes you need to transfer the data to the installed disk first as the drive need to be formatted by NASLite, correct.

Once you mount a drive in the finder via command+k (connect to server) the drive will appear on the desktop. Follow these steps to automount it at startup:

• Open System preferences
• Click on 'Accounts'
• Select your account and then click 'Login Items'
• Drag and drop the drive from your desktop into the list

Thats it.. When you reboot the Finder will mount the disk automatically.