Video freezing in Mint 14 Cinnamon

[Emegra]

Quick quiz .. who can spot the difference between these 2 commands -

There is no difference, I created a folder and named it as the first command, then created another folder in the same directory and tried to name it as the second command and I was told another directory with the same name already exists.

So that would suggest to me both commands are identical

[Mark Greaves (PCNetSpec)]

And yet Mint (mount.cifs) says they are different somehow .. odd eh ?

Did the mount command I posted work ?

[Emegra]

Did the mount command I posted work ?

I'm at work at the moment so haven't had a chance to try the last instructions you posted but I will when I get home


Many thanks


Graeme

[Mark Greaves (PCNetSpec)]

Okey Dokey

[Emegra]

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graeme@Linux1 ~ $ sudo mount -t cifs //192.168.2.4/multimedia /mnt/freenas/multimedia -o username=graeme,password=@@@@@@@,iocharset=utf8,dir_mode=0777,file_mode=0777
[sudo] password for graeme: 
graeme@Linux1 ~ $ ls -a /mnt/freenas/multimedia
.   Album Art  Games  My Webpages  Photo       .recycle
..  .freenas   Music  New Videos   Recordings  Video
graeme@Linux1 ~ $ 

Looking good

[Mark Greaves (PCNetSpec)]

Sorry, got called out .. anyway, now we're getting somewhere

If you've rebooted, run this again:

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sudo mount -t cifs //192.168.2.4/multimedia /mnt/freenas/multimedia -o username=graeme,password=CHANGE_ME,iocharset=utf8,dir_mode=0777,file_mode=0777

then:

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nautilus /mnt/freenas/multimedia

a file manager window will open, use it to navigate to a video on the NAS and see if it plays properly .. does it ?

.

[Emegra]

Sorry, got called out .. anyway, now we're getting somewhere

No problem

graeme@Linux1 ~ $ sudo mount -t cifs //192.168.2.4/multimedia /mnt/freenas/multimedia -o username=graeme,password=@@@@@@,iocharset=utf8,dir_mode=0777,file_mode=0777
[sudo] password for graeme:
Unable to find suitable address.
graeme@Linux1 ~ $

[Mark Greaves (PCNetSpec)]

Has the IP address of the freenas box changed ? .. you're going to have to give it a static IP, or we're going to have to work out why it's not able to do name rsolution.

Do you know how yo give the NAS a static IP ?

[Emegra]

Hi mark

Sorry I'm giving you all this grief

The IP could well have changed because now I can't access the NAS at all even gigolo can't find it, but I only discovered that this morning before I went to work so didn't have a lot of time to study the situation, I planned to check that I can still access the NAS via peppermint or via another PC to make sure the NAS hasn't went down but I can't do that until I get home this evening

Once again thanks for all your help

Graeme

[Mark Greaves (PCNetSpec)]

No problem .. I should be about this eveinng (hopefully)

[Emegra]

Ok the situation is worse than I hoped, I had no network connection whatsoever or internet, network manager was seeing nearby connections but not my own, eventually I had to replace the router with an old one I had lying around, but I'm having a problem getting the router to assign an ip address to the NAS, I'm rebooting the NAS again I'll let you know shortly how it goes

[SeZo]

I think you may have to configure the NAS to static IP instead of DHCP
http://homeserver.wikidot.com/set-lan-ip-gui
If you do not know how to log in using your browser then see here

[Emegra]

Thank you SeZo

I think you're right I am gonna have to configure the NAS for static ip but it should assign an IP address on boot,  I need it to do that so that I can access the web GUI from my PC , as it turned out I had to use another ethernet card on the NAS before it would work and assign an IP address, so it's working at the moment and I can access all my network drives and the web GUI, but I can't understand how a router and an ethernet card can both screw up at the same time

Many thanks

Graeme

[Mark Greaves (PCNetSpec)]

Did it though .. after replacing the NIC have you tried the original router ?

Anyway, where are we ATM

has the NAS got a static IP ? .. what is it ?

[Emegra]

Ok where we are at the moment

I had to replace the router to connect to the network I just couldn't get it to connect to the original at all, it connected instantly when I connected the spare router, but the NAS wouldn't assign an address fortunately I have 2 ethernet cards insude the NAS and when I connected through the spare card it assigned an IP address instantly, and everything is back to where we were


I'm looking into setting a static address for the NAS through the web gui but I'm not quite sure I hoping for some help there.

That's where we are at the moment