samba share on asus-wrt is not mounting [SOLVED]

don quixada · l33t Joined: 15 May 2003 Posts: 790

I'm trying to connect to a guest share on my network and it's not working. I'm getting the error:

guitou · Guru Joined: 02 Oct 2003 Posts: 534 Location: France

Hello.

I suppose the option you want to set is NOT just guest, but user=guest

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don quixada · l33t Joined: 15 May 2003 Posts: 790

But then it asks for a password and there isn't (and shouldn't be) a password for 'guest'.

dq

guitou · Guru Joined: 02 Oct 2003 Posts: 534 Location: France

And you have a password option as well for mount command

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don quixada · l33t Joined: 15 May 2003 Posts: 790

I'm aware of that fact, but Samba's guest access has no password by design. The server is set up correctly and I can access it using other devices just not this Gentoo box after upgrading it.

Incidentally, if I set up the server to not allow guest access and try to connect to it using an actual username and password it still doesn't work (I get the same error). Something is wrong with my setup on the Gentoo box. Does it have to do with the SMB version levels that are enabled?

dq

bbgermany · Posted: Thu Jan 03, 2019 1:57 pm Post subject:

Hi,

can you check, whether your samba password db is having an entry for user "guest"?

check with

don quixada · l33t Joined: 15 May 2003 Posts: 790

On the server side (asus-wrt) or the client side (gentoo)? I tried that command on both sides but it didn't yield much. Asus-wrt doesn't have it installed and gentoo give a blank result..

dq

Tony0945 · Posted: Fri Jan 04, 2019 2:34 am Post subject:

On my system, user=nobody, doesn't require a password.

don quixada · l33t Joined: 15 May 2003 Posts: 790

Well for the asus-wrt the user nobody is asking for a password. But asus-wrt is working fine. Other devices are connecting using the guest network no problem. Even my gentoo machine did until I updated. Also, it is important to note that even an existing user/password combination doesn't work using gentoo to connect to the samba share so the problem lies with my config on samba on gentoo...

dq

bbgermany · Posted: Fri Jan 04, 2019 6:27 am Post subject:

Hi,

you should try the mount option for the max smb version. maybe the asus-wrt allows smb2 only. check out the following example:

don quixada · l33t Joined: 15 May 2003 Posts: 790

This was the answer! I put 'vers=2.0' is my fstab and then I could mount both guest and existing users. Thanks for your help!

dq

PS: I've changed the topic heading to reflect the wider issue.