Samba - The bane of my existence (smb.conf)

[Wayne Davis]

  It explains a lot.
BUT, I do not use nautilus.   Im using Dolphin.



Thoughts?
Would it be possible to CALL you?



Although "Workgroup" is visible.  The shares are not... THEY ARE from a 
windows machine.



On 08/21/2013 07:37 PM, James Dugger wrote:
> Wayne,
>
> 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 virtue 
> of the connected usb drives.
>
> 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.
>
> 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.
>
> 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.
>
> 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".
>
> I hope this is helpful.  Let me know if it doesn't work or there are 
> more questions.
>

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