Storageflex 3945N Working from a Linux Computer, Mounting a share on the appliance Linux and Unix

Administrator Guide

Working from a Linux Computer

The Appliance is ready for use from clients using NFS as soon as it is installed on your network. Use the Appliance as you would any other drive or server on the network:

•Connect to the appliance by IP address and directory path to a local mount point.

•Create and save shared files in folders and shares on the appliance.

•Backup files stored on the appliance.

•Create KDE/GNOME desktop icons and symbolic links for convenience and faster access.

•To handle Samba (Windows) connections, you can also use the LinNeighborhood utility with a convenient GUI.

Mounting a share on the appliance (Linux and UNIX)

You must know the appliance IP address and public mount point in order to connect to the appliance. Once the IP address and target mount point are established, the appliance is accessed using a mount command with the target IP address, target mount point, and local mount point, in the form of ‘mount ip- address:/target-directory-path /local-mount-point’. The target directory path depends on how the appliance disks are configured. If the appliance has been configured with a static IP address, ask the administrator for this address to connect to the server. If the appliance is set to obtain a DHCP IP address automatically, either get the IP address from the DHCP manager application, or ask the system administrator.

Note NFS mounts only succeed with public shares on the server. Private shares should be accessed through Windows or Macintosh clients.

To create a local mount

1.From a Linux console, type: mkdir [directory name] <Enter>

For example, if you want to create a directory named testdir, you would type: mkdir testdir

And then press <Enter>

Type: ls [directory name] <Enter>

The contents of the directory display; it is empty.

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