Newwbie with an Asus RT-N66U router and openSUSE 12.3

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Hi, everyone!

I have an old netbook(Atom N270+1GB ram) sitting around at home for ages and I have decided to give it a spin on the new openSUSE 12.3. I am glad that everything worked out of the box! Having Windows on my netbook has always been a pain in the ass. Installing all those drivers and lag and hang just drives me crazy…and I have to say, openSUSE runs quite smooth on it!

Anyway, I have used Windows for over 2 decades now and since switching to Linux is a little bit different, there are things that I don’t know well. I have tested other Linux distros somewhere in the past such as Ubuntu(7-9), Fedora, and openSUSE has always been my favorite. I was just a light Linux user, basically I just use it on web browsing and document editing stuff. The best I recently did on Ubuntu was that I have successfully set up the Transmission remote GUI to work with my Asus RT-N66U router!

If anyone of you have an Asus RT-N66U router, you should know the router has 2 USB ports and I have a 1TB USB harddrive attached to it working as an NAS. I have it running under Windows and it’s working fine, and it was quite easy to set it up. But when it comes to Linux, I don’t even have an idea how to connect it on the network! So, if anyone is kind enough to guide me or walk me through how to get it working under Samba and mount it in Linux, it will be greatly appreciated.

Thank you very much!

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Hi mayojordan and welcome to the openSUSE forum!

To easily mount Samba shares into your netbook filesystem, as it is a mobile device, you should give smb4k a try (available in openSUSE repository).

Please let us know if it works!

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Thanks, kalten.
I have installed Smb4K as you said, but I still can’t connect to my drive…:question:
What am I supposed to do? Please help. Anyone?

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Hi mayojordan,

I haven’t used SAMBA for years. I know, there is a setting in YAST, I don’t know the exact title in English, it should be about membership of a windows domain. (not the “SAMBA-server” tag!)
I am not sure if it is actually required.

I have just tried the following: I entered

SMB:/

in the address line of my file manager i.e. Dolphin in KDE4.8.5 (openSUSE12.2).
It automatically found the shares (if that is the correct term) via the SMB protocol.
(I didn’t even know that I a still running a SAMBA server on my homeserver .)

This is probably just the quick-and-dirty way. There may be a smarter way like mounting it via the configuration file

/etc/fstab

but I can’t help there.

kasi

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You are welcome,

When you say you cannot connect to your NAS, what do you mean precisely? Do you have any error message?

Futhermore, can you copy in this thread (between code tags) the output of the following command?


$ smbtree -N

This will show us your SMB network topology in order to help you to mount your NAS. Please tell us what is your router hostname if you know it.

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Thank you all, people.
So I have finally figured this one out! It’s just Firewall settings I missed, so silly before…

I used the guide from https://en.opensuse.org/openSUSE:Synology_NAS and configured my firewall settings and wahlah…
Now, I have access to all my drives through SMb4K now.

To kalten: I have to say Smb4K is pretty straight forward, so I guess I can take it from here now. Thank you very much for your recommendation!

You people are the best!!! Thank you so much!!!

If you guys don’t mind, can anyone point me to a guide how to map Transmission remote GUI directories?

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You are welcome mayojordan,

Sorry, I know nothing about this :(. Maybe you should start another thread in “Applications” section.