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Linux Mint / Windows Network - Unable to mount location
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Posted on 05/15/2023 3:44:47 PM PDT by ducttape45

Good evening fellow Freepers. I'm in search of some computer assistance with Linux Mint and accessing a Windows network.

In times past, whenever I programmed Linux on a computer, I never had problems getting it to interface with my Windows network. That all changed in recent weeks/months, apparently.

Now, whenever I try to access a Windows network with a Linux machine, I get this error:

Unable to mount location
Failed to retrieve share list from server: No such file or directory

If you look at the discussion going on at the link, I've tried almost everything suggested, and then some. But so far, nothing has worked. There are other discussion forums on this topic, and again, nothing those suggested work.

So I thought I'd consult Linux experts here to see if anyone else has run into this problem and what possible solutions you might have.

Thank you and have a great evening!


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To: linMcHlp
I tried this:

smb://192.168.50.183/Downloads

and I get this:

No such file or directory

Yet my other Windows machines see it fine.

21 posted on 05/15/2023 5:27:17 PM PDT by ducttape45 (Proverbs 14:34, "Righteousness exalteth a nation: but sin is a reproach to any people.")
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To: ducttape45

I have an ac1900 with ddwrt and 2 usb ports that I have 2 ssd’s connected to that can be seen by all my devices, but I don’t run linux except for occasionally playing with linux. It is more curious that your linux os does not see your routers drive - Windows should not even be involved in that, it should be linux os to router - no winos involved...


22 posted on 05/15/2023 5:27:50 PM PDT by Duke of Milan
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To: ducttape45

You’ve not yet mentioned whether this Windows share is on a PC you’ve been able to access via Linux in the past. Or that you might have don to that PC before this started happening.

I’ve used gigolo on occasion when SMB mounts were being uncooperative. It’s in the default repository.

I’ve been on Mint since v.15 and v.21 is far and away the buggiest and most temperamental Mint I’ve used.

And it’s still flaking out. There was an update in early April that caused my volume control to disappear at least every other day. There were dozen’s of work-arounds but the only one that worked for me was to reboot.

If I’m going to have to reboot it that regularly, I might as well be on Windoze.


23 posted on 05/15/2023 5:49:28 PM PDT by threefinger
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To: threefinger

“I’ve been on Mint since v.15 and v.21 is far and away the buggiest and most temperamental Mint I’ve used.”

I have a lot of different installs on a lot of different drives to test. I have had problems with everything above 20.0. Using 20.0 has been very stable and working well for over a year now. So far 18.3 was good, and 20.0 is good. all the other have been buggy or had driver issues.

Chasing the newest is not always best.


24 posted on 05/15/2023 5:58:20 PM PDT by Openurmind (The ultimate test of a moral society is the kind of world it leaves to its children. ~ D. Bonhoeffer)
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To: Duke of Milan
"...I have an ac1900 with ddwrt ....

DD-WRT is DA SHIZ! Turns mere mortal rooters into Super-Rooters.

25 posted on 05/15/2023 5:59:20 PM PDT by threefinger
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To: ducttape45

Again, try:

On the Windows machine (”Machine B”), create a folder (aka directory) to share:

C:\shthis

and enable sharing for it - and be sure that user “joeA” has full permission for access to that folder.

So, you would be trying to connect from the Linux box (”Machine A”) to:

smb://192.168.50.183/shthis

Sometimes helps, when both machines each have a user account that is using the exact same username and password:

Machine A (Linux box)
Username: joeA
Password: smpassWordA

Machine B (Windows box)
Username: joeA
Password: smpassWordA

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Reading material

https://www.varonis.com/blog/ntfs-permissions-vs-share

https://www.makeuseof.com/mount-ntfs-windows-drives-in-linux/

- - -

All the info I have for you; good luck.


26 posted on 05/15/2023 6:10:01 PM PDT by linMcHlp
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To: Carriage Hill

Thank you for the ping my old friend! :)


27 posted on 05/15/2023 6:15:48 PM PDT by Openurmind (The ultimate test of a moral society is the kind of world it leaves to its children. ~ D. Bonhoeffer)
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To: ducttape45

It might be easier troubleshooting why your linux machine can not see the router usb since that does not involve windows and solving the usb problem has a high probability of solving the windows share problem — in fact you don’t seem to have a windows share problem since the usb on the router is not seen. (btw my ac1900 is Netgear, just to be clear.)


28 posted on 05/15/2023 6:15:55 PM PDT by Duke of Milan
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To: ducttape45

I haven’t tried it yet because I don’t have any Windows boxes any more but have you tried “Warpinator “?

They have it in the SW Manager repo...


29 posted on 05/15/2023 6:24:33 PM PDT by Openurmind (The ultimate test of a moral society is the kind of world it leaves to its children. ~ D. Bonhoeffer)
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To: ducttape45
Have you tried Warpinator. You will need to install it on the Linux computer and the Windows network. Then you should be able to transfer file.

Good Hunting... from Varmint Al

30 posted on 05/15/2023 6:29:04 PM PDT by Varmint Al
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To: Duke of Milan

A couple months ago I was able to see the USB drive on the router with Linux. Now it won’t, and that’s what first alerted me to this problem.


31 posted on 05/15/2023 9:54:11 PM PDT by ducttape45 (Proverbs 14:34, "Righteousness exalteth a nation: but sin is a reproach to any people.")
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To: threefinger

Up until a couple months ago, Windows and Linux interfaced just fine. I bought a faster Netgear router and I thought maybe that was the problem. But I just hooked up an ASUS router and I still have the same problem.


32 posted on 05/15/2023 9:57:26 PM PDT by ducttape45 (Proverbs 14:34, "Righteousness exalteth a nation: but sin is a reproach to any people.")
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To: Openurmind

I tried that, it didn’t work either.


33 posted on 05/15/2023 9:58:42 PM PDT by ducttape45 (Proverbs 14:34, "Righteousness exalteth a nation: but sin is a reproach to any people.")
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To: linMcHlp

Advanced Troubleshooting Server Message Block (SMB)

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-server/storage/file-server/troubleshoot/troubleshooting-smb

SMB troubleshooting guidance

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/troubleshoot/windows-server/networking/troubleshoot-smb-guidance


34 posted on 05/15/2023 10:08:25 PM PDT by linMcHlp
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To: ducttape45

I don’t recommend Dolphin if you are not using KDE. It was made for KDE.
It will work, but not fully.


35 posted on 05/15/2023 10:11:04 PM PDT by Bikkuri (I am proud to be a PureBlood.)
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To: ducttape45

DID YOU CHECK TO SEE IF MAC FILTERING IS ENABLED ON YOUR NETWORK SOMEWHERE

TRY USING A LAN CABLE TO SETUP THE SHARE, EITHER DIRECTLY FROM YOUR HOST PC OR THE BACK OF THE ROUTER, IF THAT WORKS THEN YOU KNOW ITS A WIFI EQP OR PROTOCOL ISSUE


36 posted on 05/15/2023 11:32:36 PM PDT by TuxCommando
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To: ducttape45

Could you have gotten a Windows update that shut off the connection from the windows side? They are doing that now...


37 posted on 05/16/2023 2:47:01 AM PDT by Openurmind (The ultimate test of a moral society is the kind of world it leaves to its children. ~ D. Bonhoeffer)
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To: TuxCommando

The setup for my router says it’s off. Should it be enabled?


38 posted on 05/16/2023 3:41:39 AM PDT by ducttape45 (Proverbs 14:34, "Righteousness exalteth a nation: but sin is a reproach to any people.")
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To: ducttape45

If the usb drive plugged into the router can not be seen by your linux machine, but is seen by the windows machines, you do not have a windows sharing problem, you have a network problem with (most likely) the linux machine, or the router setup with the linux machine.

The sharing problem between the windows machines and the linux machine is a side effect of the linux machine network problem.

Until the linux machine can see the files on the router usb drive, troubleshooting the windows sharing is downstream of the problem because the router-linux box network problem needs to be solved first.

When the linux box can see the files on the usb drive, your windows sharing problem will be solved at the same time.


39 posted on 05/16/2023 5:52:57 AM PDT by Duke of Milan
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To: Duke of Milan

Good summary of the facts. The only question now is, what is causing Linux not to see network shares or the USB drive on the router? I’ve done everything I’ve asked to do, and nothing works.


40 posted on 05/16/2023 7:31:01 AM PDT by ducttape45 (Proverbs 14:34, "Righteousness exalteth a nation: but sin is a reproach to any people.")
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