I have an ancient 386 Acer Aspire One, which was running Buster.
I upgraded Buster to Bullseye and the upgrade seemed to go OK.
I have a USB stick attached to my WIFI Router. I could access this using a file manager (Thunar or PCmanFM) with Buster. I'm afraid that I have only vague memories of setting that up, but I think that I set up a mount point for a Samba share etc.
Anyway, no matter what I do I can't seem to be able to get access with Bullseye. I've tried numerous things, but I don't seem to hit upon the magic formula.
The latest error message I get when trying to mount the drive is "Default SMB version has recently changed ...".
I would be grateful if someone could help and/or direct me to a "definitive" set of instructions to do this.
I'm a long, long way from being a Linux expert, so help aimed at a newbie would be much appreciated.
Thanks in advance.
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Access USB Stick on Router with Bullseye
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Re: Access USB Stick on Router with Bullseye
So you want to access a SMB network share, not a USB stick. I suggest you correct the title to get attention from people who know about SMB/samba (not me).Pulverdampf wrote: ↑2022-05-09 13:54 I have a USB stick attached to my WIFI Router. I could access this using a file manager (Thunar or PCmanFM) with Buster. I'm afraid that I have only vague memories of setting that up, but I think that I set up a mount point for a Samba share etc.
Please post the full commands and messages. Maybe the SMB version used by the router is considered obsolete in buster.Pulverdampf wrote: ↑2022-05-09 13:54 The latest error message I get when trying to mount the drive is "Default SMB version has recently changed ...".
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Re: Access USB Stick on Router with Bullseye
I may have blundered into a possible solution:
This seems to work:
sudo mount.cifs //<IP Address>/<assigned name of USB stick on router>/ /<mount point>/ -o guest,vers=1.0,noperm
The mount fails unless "vers=1".
Can anyone explain that to me, as I'm very confused?
Can anyone see a problem with doing this, or have a better solution?
I now have to turn this into an addition for fstab, but I need to get some sleep.
This seems to work:
sudo mount.cifs //<IP Address>/<assigned name of USB stick on router>/ /<mount point>/ -o guest,vers=1.0,noperm
The mount fails unless "vers=1".
Can anyone explain that to me, as I'm very confused?
Can anyone see a problem with doing this, or have a better solution?
I now have to turn this into an addition for fstab, but I need to get some sleep.
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Re: Access USB Stick on Router with Bullseye
Linux (and Windows) have dropped support for an older Samba protocol which was very insecure. Unfortunately some routers only use the old protocol. It is possible to re-enable the old protocol if you think there is no security risk - accessing a USB drive on a home network should be fine.
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Re: Access USB Stick on Router with Bullseye
I suspect vers=1 is the old, deprecated Samba protocol, SMB1.Pulverdampf wrote: ↑2022-05-10 21:29 I may have blundered into a possible solution:
This seems to work:
sudo mount.cifs //<IP Address>/<assigned name of USB stick on router>/ /<mount point>/ -o guest,vers=1.0,noperm
The mount fails unless "vers=1".
Can anyone explain that to me, as I'm very confused?
Can anyone see a problem with doing this, or have a better solution?
I now have to turn this into an addition for fstab, but I need to get some sleep.
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Re: Access USB Stick on Router with Bullseye
Thanks for all your help. I guess that I'll have to live with using the old protocol, unless I can talk my ISP into giving me something better (I won't hold my breath).
For fstab, I ended up with:
//<IP Address>/<assigned name of USB stick on router>/ /<mount point>/ cifs guest,uid=1000,x-systemd.automount,vers=1.0,noperm 0 0
which was a lot more complicated than I'd hoped for.
Thanks again.
For fstab, I ended up with:
//<IP Address>/<assigned name of USB stick on router>/ /<mount point>/ cifs guest,uid=1000,x-systemd.automount,vers=1.0,noperm 0 0
which was a lot more complicated than I'd hoped for.
Thanks again.