[arch-general] NAS drive revisited

[Loui Chang]

On Sun 20 May 2012 21:58 +0100, P .NIKOLIC wrote:
> I am still not able to write to my external NAS drive an iomega home
> media drive

You just can't write? If you can mount but can't write, then you have
the wrong permissions on the drive and/or uid/gid mixups, depending on
how you want it set up.

> So lets approach it from a different angle  
> 
> we will say i have not done anything yet just plugged it into the
> network 
> 
> What packages am i looking to install and what configuration changes
> do i need to make .

See the Arch wiki. The ball's in your court here. What you read depends
on how you want to access the drive. SMB? NFS?

> I am trying this way round as i am chasing my tail up somewhere dark
> and nasty right now .
>
> I know the drive works perfectly i have just tried it with an old Suse
> distro  on the Laptop and instant read/write no problem now if it can
> work on there why wont it work on Arch ..

Your description of the problem is much too vague. If you want help, you
ought to describe more specifically what you're trying to do, and what
is going wrong.