access attached devices from Mac

[planigan]

The latest firmware added what I thought would be a useful new feature.

New feature: Access attached devices from PC

• Access your attached NTV550 devices by opening \\NEOTV550 from your PC, or use unit’s IP address
• Change server (Netbios) name, useful if you have multiple NTV550 units
• See new menu: Settings -> Network -> Server options
• Use “Share devices” to enable / disable device sharing for access to attached USBs, eSATA, SD card
• Note: by default, device sharing is not enabled

However, when I try to access the NTV550 from my Mac, all I see is a single share called "Attached Devices" which contains a shortcuts/aliases that do not work. Clicking on one causes an error "The alias cannot be opened because the original item cannot be found".

Has anyone else gotten this to work from a Mac?

[johand]

Originally Posted by planigan

The latest firmware added what I thought would be a useful new feature.



However, when I try to access the NTV550 from my Mac, all I see is a single share called "Attached Devices" which contains a shortcuts/aliases that do not work. Clicking on one causes an error "The alias cannot be opened because the original item cannot be found".

Has anyone else gotten this to work from a Mac?

Are you possibly trying to run Samba with OS X Lion? Lion doesn't support the version of smb that is needed for the 550. You'd have to use nfs.

[planigan]

Originally Posted by johand

Are you possibly trying to run Samba with OS X Lion? Lion doesn't support the version of smb that is needed for the 550. You'd have to use nfs.

Nope, I'm running 10.6.8 Snow Leopard. I can confirm that the connection works fine with WinXP running in Parallels.

How does NFS work anyway? I have tried accessing the NeoTV via nfs://192.168.1.105 and the connection just times out with "server did not respond".

[aregularjoe]

Same for me with 10.6.6

NFS (Network File System) is not configured by default on OS X. I have just started doing some google search for appropriate packages and configuration. Will let you know what I come up with.

[planigan]

Originally Posted by aregularjoe

Same for me with 10.6.6

NFS (Network File System) is not configured by default on OS X. I have just started doing some google search for appropriate packages and configuration. Will let you know what I come up with.

I also tried adding the mount through Disk Utility -> File -> NFS Mounts..., but it timed out. If I find anything out I'll update as well.

[tengam]

I dont know about Mac stuff exactly, but I had a similar issue on Linux. The cause of this is that NTV550 seems to use symbolic links to point to the attached devices.

On unix-like systems the symbolic link on the NTV attached device share gets interpreted so that it points to "/mnt/usb1" on the host that has mounted the volume.

drwxr-xr-x 2 root root    0 2008-01-01 00:00 .
drwxr-xr-x 8 root root 4096 2011-11-19 22:13 ..
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root    9 2008-01-01 00:00 Back USB -> /mnt/usb1

On Linux you can turn off CIFS unix extensions including sybolic link support by using the nounix mount option.

So mounting like this will work

sudo mount -o nounix '//192.168.0.218/Attached Devices' /mnt/neotv

Maybe there is a similar option in OSX.

[Kevriano]

I wanted to do something along these lines before, and while my set up is slightly different
(NTV is connected via ethernet to AirPport Express, which connects via wi-fi to my network) I can access any drive connected to my main iMac on the network, and stream anything from them. You have to enable sharing on your main computer and network.
This article shows you how, so it may be of use to you in setting up what you need. Worked for me.

http://macs.about.com/od/filesharing...ard-win7_4.htm

[aregularjoe]

Kevriano,

What we are talking about is just the opposite. We want to read the disk connect to the NeoTV550 from the mac.

[Kevriano]

Originally Posted by aregularjoe

Kevriano,

What we are talking about is just the opposite. We want to read the disk connect to the NeoTV550 from the mac.

Ok I am with you now then. I'll do some digging, and look at what shows on my system when it's powered up.

[karipu]

However, when I try to access the NTV550 from my Mac, all I see is a single share called "Attached Devices" which contains a shortcuts/aliases that do not work. Clicking on one causes an error "The alias cannot be opened because the original item cannot be found".

I got exactly the same problem!

Has anybody found the solution?