I'm running the following command:

 

sudo mount //tower/disk2/ /tower/disk2

 

I'm receiving the following error:

 

mount: /tower/disk2 is not a block device

Since no one else answered, I'll give it a try...

 

on one side (unraid) you have to make sure you export the disk

 

on the receiving side, you have to have cifs.utils package to mount (smbmount, or mount -t cifs)

also you can use smbclient -L hostname to see what is exported by your unraid srv

 

 

I think it would be easier to mount using NFS rather than CIFS. Do you have NFS enabled?

I was able to get it mounted by creating a .smbcredentials file and running the following command:

 

sudo mount -t cifs //tower/disk2/ /tower/disk2 -o credentials=/home/sean/.smbcredentials

 

My next issue is regarding permissions. I can access the mounted drive, but I can't write to it.

 

Would I be better off using NFS?

 

 

I was able to get it mounted by creating a .smbcredentials file and running the following command:

 

sudo mount -t cifs //tower/disk2/ /tower/disk2 -o credentials=/home/sean/.smbcredentials

 

My next issue is regarding permissions. I can access the mounted drive, but I can't write to it.

 

Would I be better off using NFS?

 

While I'm not a linux export I believe CIFS is more for windows than for linux boxes. I think it would be easier on permissions if you used NFS as opposed to CIFS.

I was able to get it mounted by creating a .smbcredentials file and running the following command:

 

sudo mount -t cifs //tower/disk2/ /tower/disk2 -o credentials=/home/sean/.smbcredentials

 

My next issue is regarding permissions. I can access the mounted drive, but I can't write to it.

 

Would I be better off using NFS?

if your uid, gid don't match those on unraid server, try adding noperm flag in the mount command

(if you don't want to enforce permissions /credentials) - if this is a relaxed environment -o rw,guest,noperm should do the trick

Also use IP not server name to prove the mount. Ubuntu has a long long history of wonky netbios resolution