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I am requesting help to get the USB SMB sharing to work on my RT-BE92U running the latest Merlin FW 3006.102.4
On my LAN I have a couple of laptops, one running Fedora 42, the other MX Linux 23.6.
UPNP Media Server works fine though on both - tested using VLC. But I want to get the samba share working to be able to more easily add/remove media to the USB drive.
What I did:
The list of steps in https://www.snbforums.com/threads/can-not-move-delete-paste-usb-files-rt-ac68u.94403/post-951861 were followed. (Drive formatted to NTFS, account created and r/w permissions granted to the share folder.) Also the smb.confs of the 2 machines had their workgroup names changed to match the router's 'WORKGROUP'
As others have noted, core 4 stays maxxed at 100% when Enable Share is switched on.
I enabled Samba on the Fedora system, using their instructions: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/quick-docs/samba/#install_and_enable_samba and I checked the firewall-config GUI that samba and samba client are enabled.
On the MX machine GUFW has a tcp port 445 exception rule set as per this guide: https://fullscale4me.com/Using-Samba-File-Sharing-in-MX-Linux.pdf (I also tried using GUFW's preconfigured samba setting that allowed more ports, and also tried temporarily disabling the firewall but that did nothing to fix the problem)
What happens:
On Fedora the router is visible in the file browser but on clicking it there is no credentials prompt, only a 'connection refused' message. (Prefixing the share path with <user>@ does get the prompt but I'm still refused a connection.)
On MX, inputting the smb path in Thunar, the router does not appear though I do get a credentials prompt. But again, 'connection refused' after inputting the account/password of the samba share.
On the router I also tried temporarily enabling the guest login but doesn't make a difference
Help appreciated!
On my LAN I have a couple of laptops, one running Fedora 42, the other MX Linux 23.6.
UPNP Media Server works fine though on both - tested using VLC. But I want to get the samba share working to be able to more easily add/remove media to the USB drive.
What I did:
The list of steps in https://www.snbforums.com/threads/can-not-move-delete-paste-usb-files-rt-ac68u.94403/post-951861 were followed. (Drive formatted to NTFS, account created and r/w permissions granted to the share folder.) Also the smb.confs of the 2 machines had their workgroup names changed to match the router's 'WORKGROUP'
As others have noted, core 4 stays maxxed at 100% when Enable Share is switched on.
I enabled Samba on the Fedora system, using their instructions: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/quick-docs/samba/#install_and_enable_samba and I checked the firewall-config GUI that samba and samba client are enabled.
On the MX machine GUFW has a tcp port 445 exception rule set as per this guide: https://fullscale4me.com/Using-Samba-File-Sharing-in-MX-Linux.pdf (I also tried using GUFW's preconfigured samba setting that allowed more ports, and also tried temporarily disabling the firewall but that did nothing to fix the problem)
What happens:
On Fedora the router is visible in the file browser but on clicking it there is no credentials prompt, only a 'connection refused' message. (Prefixing the share path with <user>@ does get the prompt but I'm still refused a connection.)
On MX, inputting the smb path in Thunar, the router does not appear though I do get a credentials prompt. But again, 'connection refused' after inputting the account/password of the samba share.
On the router I also tried temporarily enabling the guest login but doesn't make a difference
Help appreciated!
