Hello everyone. I'm trying Linux again after a couple of years. Zorin OS looks great. I do however struggle to connect to my Thecus NAS.
It has a couple of browseable folders that are public. So I can easily connect from my Windows install.
From Zorin it's not that easy. The Files browser sees the NAS as "N4200 (Samba)" but it will not connect when I click it.
I installed samba, it runs when I check with ¨sudo systemctl status smbd".
What am I doing wrong here? I want to be able to backup to my NAS and access the music and pictures on it.
I have no knowledge about this particular product, but I have a home-made NAS (Open Media Vault).
I can connect to it in the file manager (Nautilus) without any additional application. I can also connect to it through the browser interface as well.
Thank you for the reply. Did you do anything special when you installed samba to make it work?
I set the folders to 'public' on the Nas and allowed anonymous logins so theoretically I should be good.
I searched through my installed apps but I did not see any Samba related app in there
You might have to wait for other volunteers to pitch in here to help you. @Aravisian
Hello. I can see my NAS but when I click on it it just does not want to open it.
I enabled NFS on the NAS and tried to connect with the bar at the bottom.
Like this: nfs://192.168.2.16/MUZIEK/
It searches for a while and then says mountpoint is not available...
I had already enabled SAMBA/CIFS.
Well....
Somehow it works now. I created a new user on the NAS. Now finally I got a prompt when I clicked on the NAS. It is connected now.
YES!!!
THanks for the nice help. This is a nice forum.
I was too quick to cry victory. After restart it will not connect again. I had it saved to favorites as smb://N4200.local/ but it gives me the same error message as before: "Could not retreive list of shared folders from server: invalid argument."
Connecting via nfs is als not working: nfs://192.168.2.16/ where that is the IP adress of the NAS. It says there is no mount point. Do I need to mount it via the terminal first?
That's because NFS tries to make a network connection during boot, while chances are the network components aren't fully started yet. You should change that something with the startup time of NFS, for example that the connection is made at a slightly later moment. With Samba (CIFS) this happens anyway at a later time and the network components have already started.