Can't see or access samba share from router

[deano_ferrari]

@Langley

Hello,

My router, an Inteno DG200AL, has USB ports in which I have plugged a USB stick in to share videos over DLNA. I want to put videos on it over the network too, and the USB stick is mounted as a Samba share in the router, and it works fine from a Windows 7 pc. But I can’t see any sign of it from my Tumbleweed PC; not from “Connect to a server” in Caja; not from smb://inteno/usb, not from smbclient -L inteno. I am almost crying inside that it’s plug-and-play in 11 year old Win7, but takes hours and hours of troubleshooting on a top-modern linux OS.

Do you know which samba protocol version(s) your router supports? Most Linux file managers currently relied on using the now deprecated NetBIOS discovery (SMBv1 runs on NetBIOS as well). This is best left disabled for security reasons. However KDE’s Dolphin file manager has recently gained the ability to use WS-Discovery for servers that support that mechanism.

Assuming that the router supports avahi service discovery, see if you can reach it via a .local name…

ping inteno.local

avahi-browse -art

If inteno.local is enumerated in the avahi-browse output, try

smb://inteno.local/usb

or via it’s IP address if that fails eg

smb://192.168.1.1/usb/

Is the firewall active?

sudo systemctl status firewalld

and if it is, check that samba and avahi allowed?

firewall-cmd --list-all