Setting up a Buffalo LS210D NAS

[Little Girl]

Hey there,

I don't know Samba, so take anything I write here with a huge grain
of salt. I took a look at the links. I ran away screaming from the
Tech Republic page, because it seemed to be how to set up a Samba
server. The Buffalo already has Samba set up on it, from what you
wrote, so what you need is client instructions. The Ask Ubuntu page
had what looked like some good suggestions.

Are you able to access Buffalo's dashboard like the OP on the Ask
Ubuntu page did? If so, which version of SMB does the Buffalo use?
You might need to know that for your mount command.

My approach to this kind of problem is to throw spaghetti at the wall
until it sticks, so I cobbled together some possible mount commands
from that page to try in a terminal window on the client. Two of them
use topsecret for the password, so you'll need to edit that, and two
of them use version 2.0, so you might need to change that to 1.0.

The username and password are surely set by the Buffalo, so if you
don't have those, they'll be the next thing you'd need to figure
out.

sudo mount -t cifs //192.168.1.23/D210 /big_archive

sudo mount -t xfs //192.168.1.23/D210 /big_archive

sudo mount -t cifs -o username=jay //192.168.1.23/D210 /big_archive

sudo mount -t xfs -o username=jay //192.168.1.23/D210 /big_archive

sudo mount -t cifs -o
uid=jay,username=jay,password=topsecret,nounix,vers=2.0
//192.168.1.23/D210 /big_archive

sudo mount -t xfs -o
uid=jay,username=jay,password=topsecret,nounix,vers=2.0
//192.168.1.23/D210 /big_archive

Once you can get connected manually, an /etc/fstab line can be
created. It looks like Steve Grim has a working one that you could
edit:

https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-users/2023-July/310796.html

All I can do is make guesses, but either way, good luck. It will be
very exciting when it finally connects.

-- 
Little Girl

There is no spoon.