This is kind of a general Linux question, but the device involved is running LibreElec so I figured I’d start here. I’m setting up a Jellyfin server on a Raspberry PI and I’ve successfully mounted my dedicated network drives. The only piece left is a WD My Book USB 3.0 external hard drive. It’s plugged into a Chromebox which is running LibreElec. On a Mac or PC The Chromebox shows up as an SMB shared device and the My Book drive is just a folder. Within Kodi itself I was able to add it with ZeroConference and it displays as 192:168.0.122:445/My Book
The IP address makes sense, since that’s the address for the device, but I wasn’t sure how the 445 came into play. How does that need to be formatted if you’re trying to mount it using the sudo mount -t cifs command?
External Hard Drives on Other Devices
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docsuess84 -
April 27, 2024 at 7:36 PM -
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SMB is a file service, which works on top of a block-based file system. So in theory the underlying file system doesn't matter. However, I recently switched from exFAT to Ext4 on my NAS, since I had trouble to access files after a while. I guess Ext4 is easier to scan for errors under Linux, and such scans are triggered periodically. I suggest Ext4 for Linux.
SMB default port numbers are 139 or 445, so that's OK.
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My NAS is permanently mounted on Ubuntu. I've used this guide:
https://ubuntu.com/server/docs/how-to-mount-cifs-shares-permanently
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The IP address makes sense, since that’s the address for the device, but I wasn’t sure how the 445 came into play. How does that need to be formatted if you’re trying to mount it using the sudo mount -t cifs command?
You only need to specify port details when a non-standard port for the protocol is used. LE shares SMB/CIFS on default ports so nothing is needed.
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Oh, one thing I was curious about is if there can be spaces when you’re mounting a drive. Should the share be entered as “My Book” or would it be “My_Book” ?
Special characters in Samba filenamesWhen serving files containing special characters such as "()?:" in the filename through Samba, the names get transformed into an unrecognizable format. For…serverfault.comSo space sign is legit.
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Spaces are legal but will need to be correctly quoted everywhere else things break. If you want an easier life, avoid naming devices and shares with spaces.
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It can be changed though, fortunately..
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It came that way out of the box, unfortunately.
Come on, from what I've seen in your posts, you're not the out-of-the-box guy.
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Come on, from what I've seen in your posts, you're not the out-of-the-box guy.
WD passport/book drives come with spaces in their volume names. Some might be even formatted in the way that older Windows do not recognize their partitions.
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Remember to replace /mnt/mybook with the actual mount point you’ve created on your system, and fill in your actual username and password. If the share doesn’t require authentication, you can use -o guest instead of the username and password options.
Before running the command, ensure that the cifs-utils package is installed on your system, as it provides the necessary tools for mounting SMB/CIFS shares. If it’s not installed, you can typically install it using your distribution’s package manager.
