Setting up a Buffalo LS210D NAS

[Jay Ridgley]

On 7/17/23 17:39, Little Girl wrote:
> Hey there,
>
> Jay Ridgley wrote:

Good Afternoon,

Apologies for the size of this post.

Thank you Little Girl and Bo, I have included you in this message as 
well (my response to you was sent to the list and not individually (my 
apologies).

In an attempt to trim some things I deleted the latest exchange in the 
thread. I am also going in another direction.

I contacted the folks at Buffalo and was able to find the following:

https://askubuntu.com/questions/1371630/mount-a-network-attached-drive-with-xfs-file-system-and-username-password-requirement

Near the bottom of that information is a template of how to make it work.

I am trying to utilize the directions I found there...

The author writes:

I am running Ubuntu 20.04.3 LTS, and I recently purchased a Buffalo 
LS210D27F network storage drive and attached it to my network. I can 
access the drive's dashboard through a web browser, but I do not seem to 
be able to mount it. Checking information, I see that the drive has an 
XFS filesystem, and that SMB is the only file sharing option enabled. It 
is set up with the recommended setting that it will switch automatically 
between SMB1 and SMB2. I believe SMB means I am using CIFS instead of 
XFS, but I just can't find any info on that.

To be safe, in addition to the below, I tried to run |sudo mount -t xfs 
//[local IP]/[folder] /[mount point]| and I got a message that the 
drive/folder combo does not exist.

I made sure both |smbclient| and |cifs-utils| were installed and up-to-date.

I ran |smbclient -L //[local IP]| and it asked for the password. When I 
entered it, I got the following output:

|Sharename Type Comment --------- ---- ------- IPC$ IPC IPC Service 
(LinkStation) [folder] Disk webaxs Disk share Disk LinkStation folder 
info Disk LinkStation Utilities SMB1 disabled -- no workgroup available 
END of author writes. When i issued the same smbclient command I get: 
do_connect: Connection to 192.168.1.23 failed (Error 
NT_STATUS_CONNECTION_REFUSED) Further investigation led to the following 
info on Samba here: 
https://www.techrepublic.com/article/big-change-samba-ubuntu/ Following 
the instructions there I now have the Samba demon running as shown by 
running the command sudo systemctl status smbd I then reentered the: 
smbclient command - NO request for password was issued and the same 
message was returned. Though out this whole time I am able to ping the 
NAS at 192.168.1.23 and also login and examine the settings it contains. 
Where do I look to proceed further? Regards, Jay |

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