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Wireless Network Problems - Cannot see NAS drives or Printer

Asked by Ken Stupka

Being a complete newbie to Linux and hardly an expert in networking, I am at a loss as to what to do. Any help would be more than appreciated.

I have a wireless network configured and I can connect to it. However, I cannot access my NAS drives and wireless printer.
What I have done so far:

Network Adapter (Linksys WUSB600N
1. Installed and functioning. I can connect to my Verizon Internet network via the MyFii wireless modem without an issue and have full access to the internet.
2. I get a successful connection message when I try to connect to my wireless network

Brother Printer MFC7440 (Wireless)

1. I followed the instructions from this site about installing the appropriate Brother printer and I received no errors. The printer is listed on the list of printers when I attempt to print but there is no information in the Status Box and when I select the printer, it sends the print job to the USB printer (which I did not configure)

2. Accord to Brother documentation, I modified the /etc/printcap.local by replacing the existing lp line with :rm= and then the ip address of the printer\. the the line :rp=lp\. I could not restart the printing system because the /etc/init.d/lpr restart generated an error that the path could not be found. I figured that restarting Ubuntu would accomplish the same thing - Does it????

3. I can successfully ping the printer.

As I said earlier, I can see the printer listed when I attempt to print but does not appear in the Places - Computer display

NAS Drives (Buffalo LinkStation)

1. I followed the instructions from this site, "NFS Client Configuration to Mount NFS Share. It appeared to me that the installation went without a problem. After restarting the system, the drives do not appear in Places - Computer display or any other place that I looked.

2. I can successfully ping each of the 3 drives.

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Best actionparsnip (andrew-woodhead666) said : 		#1

If you add the NAS in /etc/fstab it will mount them at boot

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Ken Stupka (kenstupka) said : 		#2

Thank you for the information. I found the fstab file and have no idea what
it is that I am entering and where to get the values from. Please help - I
am desperate.

Thanks,
KCS

On Sat, Sep 4, 2010 at 11:43 AM, actionparsnip <
<email address hidden>> wrote:

> Your question #124097 on gnome-nettool in ubuntu changed:
> https://answers.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gnome-nettool/+question/124097
>
> Status: Open => Answered
>
> actionparsnip proposed the following answer:
> If you add the NAS in /etc/fstab it will mount them at boot
>
> --
> If this answers your question, please go to the following page to let us
> know that it is solved:
>
> https://answers.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gnome-nettool/+question/124097/+confirm?answer_id=0
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Ken Stupka (kenstupka) said : 		#3

I might add that I have done the following. I do not know if this is
relevant but I ran iwconfig and the output is shown below then I ran blkid
and the output is also included below. blkid doesn't show any of the 3 NAS
drives - should it?

ken@ken-desktop:~$ iwconfig
lo no wireless extensions.

eth0 no wireless extensions.

ra0 Ralink STA ESSID:"KCS" Nickname:"RT3572STA"
          Mode:Managed Frequency=2.412 GHz Access Point:
00:23:69:C6:AA:54
          Bit Rate=54 Mb/s
          RTS thr:off Fragment thr:off
          Link Quality=100/100 Signal level:-42 dBm Noise level:-68 dBm
          Rx invalid nwid:0 Rx invalid crypt:0 Rx invalid frag:0
          Tx excessive retries:0 Invalid misc:0 Missed beacon:0

ken@ken-desktop:~$

ken@ken-desktop:~$ sudo blkid
[sudo] password for ken:
/dev/sda1: LABEL="HP" UUID="7C96AB0096AAB9D2" TYPE="ntfs"
/dev/sda2: LABEL="FACTORY_IMAGE" UUID="949CA48C9CA46A86" TYPE="ntfs"
/dev/sdb1: LABEL="HP2" UUID="1CFA7D29FA7CFFF6" TYPE="ntfs"
/dev/sdb5: UUID="ede65df3-0ec0-4e2c-86a6-d2cf44290b0d" TYPE="ext4"
/dev/sdb6: UUID="29d1f090-0ebb-49c5-9b18-57ae950700c5" TYPE="swap"
/dev/sdc1: LABEL="Cruzer" UUID="9803-9A09" TYPE="vfat"
ken@ken-desktop:~$
On Sat, Sep 4, 2010 at 1:24 PM, Ken Stupka <
<email address hidden>> wrote:

Your question #124097 on gnome-nettool in ubuntu changed:
> https://answers.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gnome-nettool/+question/124097
>
> Status: Answered => Open
>
> You are still having a problem:
> Thank you for the information. I found the fstab file and have no idea
> what
> it is that I am entering and where to get the values from. Please help - I
> am desperate.
>
> Thanks,
> KCS
>
> On Sat, Sep 4, 2010 at 11:43 AM, actionparsnip <
> <email address hidden>> wrote:
>
> > Your question #124097 on gnome-nettool in ubuntu changed:
> >
> https://answers.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gnome-nettool/+question/124097
> >
> > Status: Open => Answered
> >
> > actionparsnip proposed the following answer:
> > If you add the NAS in /etc/fstab it will mount them at boot
> >
> > --
> > If this answers your question, please go to the following page to let us
> > know that it is solved:
> >
> >
> https://answers.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gnome-nettool/+question/124097/+confirm?answer_id=0
> >
> > If you still need help, you can reply to this email or go to the
> > following page to enter your feedback:
> >
> https://answers.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gnome-nettool/+question/124097
> >
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> > subscriber of the question.
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Ken Stupka (kenstupka) said : 		#4

I have the printer issue solved. But the NAS drive issue persists.

I failed to mention that the NAS drives are directly connected to my Linksys WRT610N router and my computer connects wireless to the network.

I tried to research the fstab file and got some info as the format but I have one major delema: where or how can I get information about my NAS drives so that I can modify the fstab file?

They are NFS format but that is about all I knowat this time

Many thanks.

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Ken Stupka (kenstupka) said : 		#5

Thanks actionparsnip, that solved my question.