View source for Samba share for Asus router connected USB device

[[Category:Ubuntu]]
[[Category:Ubuntu Gnome]]
[[Category:201809]]

I connected an USB storage to my Asus RT-N66U router to be accessed via the samba network protocol. I can now use Nautilus to access and modify the files on this device.

However, this didn't work at first.

= Configuration on the router =

For the Samba Share to be password protected, a username and password must be created with read/write permissions on the share.

Configuration:

{| class="wikitable"
|-
! Setting || Value || Comment
|-
| Server-name: || rt-n66u || Is the name of the router, you can also use the IP address
|-
| Workgroup: || WORKGROUP || Doesn't matter much, maybe needed for Windows
|-
| Device: || USB-label1 || Is not used
|-
| Shared folder: || shared1 || 
|-
| Sub-folder: || / || 
|-
| User: || user1 || 
|-
| Password: || *** || 
|-
| Permissions on folder 'shared1': || read/write || 
|}

= Configuration Nautilus and Samba =

Trying to access this share with Nautilus, it would prompt for a username and password. After entering the credentials it would keep prompting.

To access this share with Nautilus type this in the address bar (CTRL+L), you can also use the IP address:

* smb://rt-n66u/shared1

Command-line mount:

<syntaxhighlight lang=bash>
gio mount smb://rt-n66u/rpicam
</syntaxhighlight>

On the internet you will find talk about editing smb.conf to solve this kind of problem. It has to do with the authentication-method that is used against the Samba server. I tried several options and finally this one worked for me (but might not work for you):

<syntaxhighlight lang=bash>
sudo gedit /etc/samba/smb.conf
</syntaxhighlight>

<syntaxhighlight lang=bash>

	#...

	[global]

	#...

	security = user
	client use spnego = no

	#...

</syntaxhighlight>

Note: while trying different options you do not have to restart anything.

= See also =

* https://www.google.com/search?q=nautilus+keeps+prompting+username+password+samba+share