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<div class="moz-cite-prefix"> It explains a lot.<br>
BUT, I do not use nautilus. Im using Dolphin.<br>
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Thoughts?<br>
Would it be possible to CALL you?<br>
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Although "Workgroup" is visible. The shares are not... THEY ARE
from a windows machine.<br>
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On 08/21/2013 07:37 PM, James Dugger wrote:<br>
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<div class="gmail_default"><font color="#0b5394" face="arial,
helvetica, sans-serif">Sorry for the confusion. Based on
your description, If I understand you the Linux box is
your client (not a samba server) and the WD N750 router is
acting as a NAS (Network Sttached Storage) device, by
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<div class="gmail_default"><font color="#0b5394" face="arial,
helvetica, sans-serif">First, if the above is correct than
your Linux box does not need to be configured as a Samba
server. Samba installs with (amoung other more things) to
basic features a samba-server and a samba-client. Since
you are not maintaining files and folders on your Linux
box that thw Windows machine needs to access then you do
not need the server portion of samba running and
configured in you Linux box. The purpose of the smb.conf
file is to configure the Linux box as a server. Since you
are not serving files from this compture the smb.conf is
doing nothing. It has no bearing or ability to configure
the router.</font></div>
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<div class="gmail_default"><font color="#0b5394" face="arial,
helvetica, sans-serif">Every major Linux distribution's
file management application (for Ubuntu pre 13.04) This is
Nautilus and Network Manager comes with Samba-client
functionality builtin into their applications. Because of
this Nautilus can see Windows (and other) Shares residing
on computers it can see on your network.</font></div>
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<div class="gmail_default"><font color="#0b5394" face="arial,
helvetica, sans-serif">What this all means is that your
router is controlling the share accessibility not the
Linux box. The accessiblity to shares on the router must
be set up there not with Samba. </font></div>
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<div class="gmail_default"><font color="#0b5394" face="arial,
helvetica, sans-serif">If you can see the external drive
shares from your Linux boxes file manager (Nautilus or
other) and you are prompted for a password then Based on
the WD N750 manual if you setup usernane and password for
your external storage shared access (on the router), you
would enter this when prompted. If you did not set up
userame and password than the manual says to enter
"guest".</font></div>
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<div class="gmail_default"><font color="#0b5394" face="arial,
helvetica, sans-serif">I hope this is helpful. Let me
know if it doesn't work or there are more questions.</font></div>
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