Notes: Enabling NTFS on LG NAS ( N2B1 )

Jotting down some Notes for enabling the LG N2B1 BluRay NAS to read/write NTFS partitioned USB drives using new firmware and the NTFS-3G package.

1. Flash new N2B1 firmware to enable SSH server so one can get access to the command prompt on the device:
   Tantalus’ N2B1 Firmware
   Author used N2R1 2569t
2. Enable SSH in the web console and login into the NAS device using a SSH Client.
3. login as root . See FAQ. 
4. if virgin use of apt-get; initialize the repositories using:
   apt-get update
5. use apt-get to install gcc compiler.
   apt-get install build-essential
6. apt-get will fail to install libc6 library; use workaround here:
   

   mv /sbin/init /sbin/init.mv
   touch /sbin/init
   chmod 755 /sbin/init
   dpkg –configure libc6
   apt-get update
   mv /sbin/init.mv /sbin/init

   WARNING: If you execute the first command, you have to execute the last command, before you reboot your NAS-Box

7. repeat apt-get install build-essential
8. gcc -v to verify gcc compiler has been installed and is working.
9. download NTFS-3G from Tuxera.  Author used: ntfs-3g-2010.10.2
10. untar: tar xvf ntfs-3g-2010.10.2.gz
11. cd ntfs-3g-2010.10.2
12. ./configure –prefix=/usr/lib to install to the correct directory. on Author’s system; the system autoconfigured to /usr/local which caused problems during make install.
13. make
14. make install as root. or sudo make install
15. you should then be able to to mount NTFS partitions using:
    

    mount -t ntfs-3g /dev/sdb1 /mnt/ntfs

Many Thanks to forum.NAS-Portal.org for hosting the information necessary to piece this together.