My Mac has taken a bit of a dive so I switched over to using the Ubuntu side exclusively. It has been great, Ubuntu has been very solid and I love all the applications. One thing I wanted to do was to mount my Time Capsule on the Linux side. For the most part this should be really easy (either through fstab or through smbmount from the command line). Well, I had lots of problems.

retrying with upper case share name
mount error 6 = No such device or address
Refer to the mount.cifs(8) manual page (e.g.man mount.cifs)

I worked on this for a while and looked all over for a solution. It is 2011 (now) and surely this still can’t be an issue. Well, finally figured it out. Don’t include the Time Capsule name in the mount call, just include the directory name:

[cc lang="bash"]sudo mount -t smbfs -o user=craig,pass= ,rw,uid=503,gid=10000 –verbose //10.0.1.1/craigCapsule/data /media/capsule
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and remove the “craigCapsule” and so it is just:

[cc lang="bash"]sudo mount -t smbfs -o user=craig,pass= ,rw,uid=503,gid=10000 –verbose //10.0.1.1/data /media/capsule
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Make sure you use the uid and gid (set to your user account) otherwise you will not be able to write to it.