Setting up a Buffalo LS210D NAS

[Jay Ridgley]

On 7/19/23 14:24, Little Girl wrote:
> 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?

NO That is most of the problem, I think. I get the following response:

sudo smbclient -L //192.168.1.23
do_connect: Connection to 192.168.1.23 failed (Error 
NT_STATUS_CONNECTION_REFUSED)

> 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.
I entered each of the commands you suggested below, no messages were 
ever recorded in /var/log/dmesg (I had this command running in another 
terminal tail -f /var/log/dmesg)

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

sudo mount -t cifs //192.168.1.23/D210 /big_archive
[sudo] password for jay:
Password for root@//192.168.1.23/D210: **I do not know this ***
mount error(111): could not connect to 192.168.1.23Unable to find 
suitable address.

> 
> sudo mount -t xfs //192.168.1.23/D210 /big_archive
jay at polar:~$ sudo mount -t xfs //192.168.1.23/D210 /big_archive
mount: /big_archive: special device //192.168.1.23/D210 does not exist.

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

jay at polar:~$ sudo mount -t cifs -o username=jay //192.168.1.23/D210 
/big_archive
Password for jay@//192.168.1.23/D210:**********
mount error(111): could not connect to 192.168.1.23Unable to find 
suitable address.
> 
> sudo mount -t xfs -o username=jay //192.168.1.23/D210 /big_archive

jay at polar:~$ sudo mount -t xfs -o username=jay //192.168.1.23/D210 
/big_archive
mount: /big_archive: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on 
//192.168.1.23/D210, missing codepage or helper program, or other error.
> 
> sudo mount -t cifs -o
> uid=jay,username=jay,password=topsecret,nounix,vers=2.0
> //192.168.1.23/D210 /big_archive
jay at polar:~$ sudo mount -t cifs -o 
uid=jay,userid=jay,password=**********,nounix,vers=2.0 
//192.138.1.23/D210 /big_archive
mount error(22): Invalid argument
Refer to the mount.cifs(8) manual page (e.g. man mount.cifs) and kernel 
log messages (dmesg)

> 
> sudo mount -t xfs -o
> uid=jay,username=jay,password=topsecret,nounix,vers=2.0
> //192.168.1.23/D210 /big_archive
> 
jay at polar:~$ sudo mount -t xfs -o uid=jay, password=*************, 
nounix,vers=2.0 //192.168.1.23/D210 /big_archive
mount: bad usage
Try 'mount --help' for more information.

> 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.
> 
I bhad tried Mr. Grim's example previously to no avail.

As I said at the start i think the key here is getting the smbclient 
command to work is the key.

Thanks,
Jay
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