Mounting Samba share

[gatorback]

Goal: mount a Samba share to /mnt/hub of RT-AC68U on Merlin 378.55

Samba share was successfully accessed via Win7 by either:

\\192.168.8.213\WDTVLiveHub
\\LIVEHUBDOT\WDTVLiveHub

Attempts at router command-line:
user@HOST:/tmp/home/root# mkdir /mnt/hub
user@HOST:/tmp/home/root# mount -t CIFS //Livehubdot/WDTVLiveHub /mnt/hub
mount: mounting //Livehubdot/WDTVLiveHub on /mnt/hub failed: No such device
user@HOST:/tmp/home/root# mount -t CIFS //192.168.8.213/WDTVLiveHub /mnt/hub
mount: mounting //192.168.8.213/WDTVLiveHub on /mnt/hub failed: No such device

Do I need to download (ipkg) a newer version of mount or is there something in the syntax above to be corrected? Actionable suggestions are appreciated. Thank you

 

[RMerlin]

The correct syntax is documented in the README.

 

[gatorback]

@RMerlin: thank you for pointing me in the right direction. I did find:

https://github.com/RMerl/asuswrt-merlin/blob/master/README-merlin.txt#L329​

and on line 329 there is an example:

mount \\\\192.168.1.100\\ShareName /cifs1 -t cifs -o "username=User,password=Pass"
​

I made an attempt but was not successful:

user@HOST:/tmp/home/root# mkdir /mnt/hub
user@HOST:/tmp/home/root# mount \\Livehubdot\WDTVLiveHub on /mnt/hub failed: Invalid argument

The Samba share does not require a PW, so I reasoned this option was not necessary. However, given the above failure, I tried adding the username and pw option:

mount \\\\Livehubdot\\WDTVLiveHub /mnt/hub -t cifs -o "username=anonymous,password=Pass"

This attempt was successful. I thought that the need for double slashes was interesting and had not seen this in the examples that I had Google-ed and the syntax (order) was very different. Again, thanks for the nudge!