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From VM to Drobo

The easiest way to bring your freshly packaged DroboApp from the cross-compile VM to the DroboFS is to mount the DroboApps share using SMB/CIFS. To do that, we need some preparation:

sudo apt-get install smbfs
mkdir /media/DroboApps

Now we modify /etc/fstab to add support for that new mount point. Add the following line to the end of /etc/fstab:

//<drobofs.name.or.ip.here>/DroboApps /media/DroboApps smbfs noauto,user,user=admin,pass=<admin password here> 0 0

You can mount the DroboApps folder using this command:

mount /media/DroboApps

Attention: if your Drobo is on, but the hard disk are sleeping, you may get this error message back on the first attempt:

mount error(112): Host is down

Just ignore it and try again after a few seconds. From this point on, you can just copy your DroboApps from /mnt/DroboFS/Shares/DroboApps to /media/DroboApps and they will be sent to the DroboFS. If you have SSH access to the FS, you can then just call from an SSH session:

DroboApps.sh install
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