Connecting to WD My Cloud

[jon12355]

Hi

I have been playing around with the Pi today (first time user, total NOOB!). What I was hoping to do was set it up to download torrents via Deluge straight onto my NAS (WD My Cloud 3TB).

So far in SSH I have

created a directory in /home/pi called wdmycloud

Then in fstab created the following

//IP Address/Public /home/pi/wdmycloud cifs guest 0 0

I looked on the desktop, in file manager, and could see the folders on the NAS, great!

Next I installed Deluge via this youtube link https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LIUgQEKxjNU

My problem now is that when I try to download a torrent it just says error and will not download. I figure this must be something to do with the permission of writing to the NAS?

When I type the following to try and create a Test folder:

mkdir /home/pi/wdmycloud/RaspPi/Downloading/TEST

It says mkdir: cannot create directory `/home/pi/wdmycloud/RaspPi/Downloading/TEST': Permission denied


Does any one have any ideas what I need to do please?

[Jack_pumpkin]

also Noob here, but I was told by an experienced user:
if it says permission denied, add SUDO to the start

Looks like you have a permission issue there. Not sure how to completely fix it, but thats the direction Id look in if I were you.
Best of luck!

[danjperron]

I do have a 3 tera byte mybook live. This is how you could create a mount on it.

On the raspberry PI create a mount point. I use /mnt/mybook

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sudo mkdir /mnt/mybook

Now we will install smbclient

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sudo apt-get install smbclient

only thing left will be to mount the drive to the Raspberry PI

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sudo mount -t cifs  -o user=yourusername,passwd=yourpasswd,rw,file_mode=0777,dir_mode=0777 //mybookIP/resourcename  /mnt/mybook

Please change user name , password, the mybooklive internet IP and the mybook live resource.

Once it is done, the folder /mnt/mybook will be linked to the Mybook drive .

Daniel

[danjperron]

Also it is possible to use the netbios name to mount.

I assume that the netbios name of your WD My Cloud is MYBOOKLIVE

First insert wins just before dns in file /etc/nsswitch.conf

sudo nano /etc/nsswitch.conf

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hosts:          files mdns4_minimal [NOTFOUND=return] wins dns mdns4

Install winbind

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sudo apt-get install winbind

Now we are able to mount using MYBOOKLIVE

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sudo mount -t cifs -o user=Daniel,password=xxxxxxx,rw,file_mode=0777,dir_mode=0777  //MYBOOKLIVE/Daniel /mnt/mybook

It is also possible to use smbclient to find which resources are available on the network

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pi@PiPlus /etc $ smbclient -L MYBOOKLIVE
Enter pi's password:
Domain=[MAISON] OS=[Unix] Server=[Samba 3.6.5]

        Sharename       Type      Comment
        ---------       ----      -------
        IPC$            IPC       IPC Service (My Book Live Network Storage)
        TimeMachine     Disk      TimeMachine
        SmartWare       Disk      SmartWare
        Alexandre       Disk
        Public          Disk      Public Share
        Chantal         Disk
        Daniel          Disk
        TimeMachineBackup Disk      TimeMachine
Domain=[MAISON] OS=[Unix] Server=[Samba 3.6.5]

        Server               Comment
        ---------            -------
        DANIELACERONE        Acer one
        FAMILLEPERRON        Famille Perron Vista
        MYBOOKLIVE           My Book Live Network Storage

        Workgroup            Master
        ---------            -------
        FAMILLE              HPSERVER
        MAISON               MYBOOKLIVE
        WORKGROUP            WEBIO

Just specify the computer nane and the resource will be display.

If you want to connect the drive when you power up the Raspberry Pi you should hide your password.

Check this post
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/MountWindowsSharesPermanently
or
http://rasspberrypi.wordpress.com/2012/ ... pberry-pi/

Daniel

[jon12355]

I do have a 3 tera byte mybook live. This is how you could create a mount on it.

On the raspberry PI create a mount point. I use /mnt/mybook

Code: Select all

sudo mkdir /mnt/mybook

Now we will install smbclient

Code: Select all

sudo apt-get install smbclient

only thing left will be to mount the drive to the Raspberry PI

Code: Select all

sudo mount -t cifs  -o user=yourusername,passwd=yourpasswd,rw,file_mode=0777,dir_mode=0777 //mybookIP/resourcename  /mnt/mybook

Please change user name , password, the mybooklive internet IP and the mybook live resource.

Once it is done, the folder /mnt/mybook will be linked to the Mybook drive .

Daniel

Thank you for this. Were you say to enter password, the folders I use on the mycloud are public and do not require a username/password, how would you change that?

[Silvasta]

Daniel's method worked perfectly once I figured out that I could turn on a password for a user and then use that user's folder for the above mentioned "resourcename." Also a set static ip address for my cloud in the my cloud desktop under settings and on my router. So far everything's working fine.
Thanks Daniel!!

[sakis_s]

Also it is possible to use the netbios name to mount.

I assume that the netbios name of your WD My Cloud is MYBOOKLIVE

First insert wins just before dns in file /etc/nsswitch.conf

sudo nano /etc/nsswitch.conf

Code: Select all

hosts:          files mdns4_minimal [NOTFOUND=return] wins dns mdns4

Install winbind

Code: Select all

sudo apt-get install winbind

Now we are able to mount using MYBOOKLIVE

Code: Select all

sudo mount -t cifs -o user=Daniel,password=xxxxxxx,rw,file_mode=0777,dir_mode=0777  //MYBOOKLIVE/Daniel /mnt/mybook

It is also possible to use smbclient to find which resources are available on the network

Code: Select all

pi@PiPlus /etc $ smbclient -L MYBOOKLIVE
Enter pi's password:
Domain=[MAISON] OS=[Unix] Server=[Samba 3.6.5]

        Sharename       Type      Comment
        ---------       ----      -------
        IPC$            IPC       IPC Service (My Book Live Network Storage)
        TimeMachine     Disk      TimeMachine
        SmartWare       Disk      SmartWare
        Alexandre       Disk
        Public          Disk      Public Share
        Chantal         Disk
        Daniel          Disk
        TimeMachineBackup Disk      TimeMachine
Domain=[MAISON] OS=[Unix] Server=[Samba 3.6.5]

        Server               Comment
        ---------            -------
        DANIELACERONE        Acer one
        FAMILLEPERRON        Famille Perron Vista
        MYBOOKLIVE           My Book Live Network Storage

        Workgroup            Master
        ---------            -------
        FAMILLE              HPSERVER
        MAISON               MYBOOKLIVE
        WORKGROUP            WEBIO

Just specify the computer nane and the resource will be display.

If you want to connect the drive when you power up the Raspberry Pi you should hide your password.

Check this post
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/MountWindowsSharesPermanently
or
http://rasspberrypi.wordpress.com/2012/ ... pberry-pi/

Daniel

Hey Daniel! Can you help me with “resourcename”? Where to look for it?
Thank you!

[sidbessa]

sudo mount -t cifs -o user=admin,passwd=bessa30,rw,file_mode=0777,dir_mode=0777 //192.168.1.12/wdmycloud /mnt/wdmycloud
Password for admin@//192.168.1.12/wdmycloud:
mount error(22): Invalid argument
Refer to the mount.cifs(8) manual page (e.g. man mount.cifs)


please help

[danjperron]

@sidbessa

You are lucky that I was looking at one of my post because this is a very old post and I wasn't on the subscribe list on it.

I don't have my WD NAS at home. It's at my office right now.

But first did you create a folder /mnt/wdmycloud with PI or your user permission!

Hum... admin access ????? not sure it is a good idea. Create an user instead.