Re: Samba with external usb drive -

Sunday, 29 March 2020

On Sun, 29 Mar 2020 at 22:36, Bob Goodwin <bobgoodwin(a)fastmail.us&gt; wrote:

...
 I have been trying to configure an asus RT-N66U router to work with
a
 USB external hard drive using the asus software. I can see the external
 drive in the router setup GUI but it never shows up in the computer
 network browser. I thought perhaps it needed Samba installed in Fedora
 31? Did that with dnf but it looks like I created an smb server, I think
 that is already part of the router? I set up a router and USB drive in
 the past with an older version of Fedora and it just worked, not so now.

 I would like to have another way to save stuff on my LAN that will be
 convenient for the Apple users and me to use. I guess I am looking for
 some help from anyone familiar with this. Perhaps I should just buy aWD
 NAS unit?

 Bob

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 Bob Goodwin - Zuni, Virginia,

Hi Bob,
This should help you out in the right direction:
https://askubuntu.com/questions/1046699/how-to-connect-to-samba-share-on-...

You might just have to tweak the settings until you get it working.
Also a quick search on this particular router revealed a very painful time
for people using 'special characters' in their passwords. It doesn't like
them. So at least to start with use simple passwords to start with.

when browsing in most file browsers on linux you should be able to use
smb://servername/share

cheers
Ant.