Galaxy_m105, 18 days ago

Thank you all for the feedback! I posted the same on Reddit at the same time and haven’t gotten any replies from Reddit yet. Looks like the power users came to Lemmy after the whole Reddit fiasco. 🙂 I’m liking it pretty well here so far. 🙂

bloodfart, 19 days ago

You used to connect without a password, right?

Galaxy_m105, 18 days ago

In KUbuntu 22.04 LTS I had to put in my username and password in settings under “Windows Shares” for it to work. I had password protected the folders in the NAS when I was setting it up in my routers settings page.

bloodfart, 18 days ago

whats the router?

Galaxy_m105, 18 days ago

It’s a Linksys model EA7300 router. It shows up to date on the firmware being at 1.0.11.200282.

bloodfart, 18 days ago (edited 14 days ago)

hardware version?

e: i looked and there’s only v1 and v2 and they’re both supported by openwrt. you can use the openwrt alternative router firmware to enable many more options and abilities. your router is dual firmware too, so it’s possible to keep the old one installed in case you wanna jump back to it.

you can (when you feel like it) make your router into a real-ass linux based gateway router that does all kinds of crazy shit like lets you use SMB2 and up to access files shared from it and other things

install openwrt on v1

install openwrt on v2

setup samba filesharing on openwrt

Galaxy_m105, 18 days ago

Oh wow!! Thank you so much! 😃 I’ll definitely look into openwrt 🙂

bloodfart, 17 days ago

Take your time and don’t rush, make sure you understand what you’re trying to do and how to do it. Double check that everything still works and verify that you know how to get to the “b” firmware incase you screw up the “a”. Verify that the “b” is configured appropriately.

lemmyreader, 19 days ago (edited 15 days ago)

According to this Samba 4.16 removed the support for the old SMB1 Protocol.

Looking here : packages.ubuntu.com/search?keywords=samba you can see the difference between Jammy and Noble : 4.15 -> 4.19 So it looks like you’re out of luck with fast and easy solutions. Maybe downloading the older Samba package and its dependencies and downgrade and then put the package on “hold” is maybe possible. During such an attempt using aptitude instead of apt could be helpful.

Galaxy_m105, 18 days ago

Ah…well crap. It is an old router. I checked for firmware updates on it, but I doubt that they’ll bring in support for newer SMB versions. I may have to get a new router at some point. Thanks for the feedback!

possiblylinux127, 18 days ago

SMB1 is really insecure so there might be a silver lining to all this.

avidamoeba, 19 days ago (edited 15 days ago)

Or do something funky like using a privileged Docker container built from 22.04 (or anything else with old enough samba) to mount the samba share onto a volume that sits on the host OS. 😂

Something like:

• Create a mount point, say /media/myshare
• docker run --privileged -it --rm -v /media/myshare:/mnt ubuntu:22.04 bash
• mount -t cifs //<host>/<path> /mnt -o user=<user>,password=<user>
• Check the contents of /media/myshare on the host.

If it works, you could bake this into a startup script for the Docker image. Run it with the appropriate –cap-add instead of –privileged. Start it on boot via systemd.

Galaxy_m105, 18 days ago

Lol, I will need to become more familiar with how to use docker. I know how to use virtual box so I may try to run vm with 22.04. I’m still pretty new and starting my Linux Journey. 🙂

Max_P, 19 days ago

Docker would still go through the kernel for the mount, that’s one of the few things Docker can’t do because it’s the same kernel as the host.

That said I doubt it’s been removed from the kernel, only the Samba server. OP is a client.

avidamoeba, 18 days ago (edited 14 days ago)

Yeah but some of the samba mounting mechanism is outside of the kernel. The protocol deprecation might just be in a separate package. 🥹 I haven’t checked.

just_another_person, 19 days ago

Check your NAS and make sure what the minimum required SMB protocol is, then check your local SMB config and make sure they match.

Galaxy_m105, 18 days ago

I’m going to check my router again for firmware/software update, but I don’t that it has support for newer SMB protocol.

jjlinux, 19 days ago

That’s BS. A Ubuntu distro would never… Wait, never mind.

Galaxy_m105, 19 days ago

lol 😂