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philc

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Registered: 2017-03-24

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Q4OS not seeing home network workgroups

Hi all, I am running Q4OS Debian 12 Bookworm with a Trinity desktop on a Toshiba Equium 210 laptop. My wifi is via a BT Whole Home mesh system, with 5 white disks to encompass a large horizontal layout. The laptop lives at a far point of the mesh.

I have installed a Synology NAS and would like to set up an smb share with it on this laptop. I have set up a credentials file and entries in /etc/fstab (which undoubtedly need trouble-shooting) but this is not going to work until this machine actually sees the network.

I have the following symptoms.

Double-clicking the Network Shares folder and bringing up an smb:/line in the action bar gets the announcement that no workgroups are found on the network and all attempts to find the the NAS via its IP address/shared folder result in folder/file do not exist announcements.

The Roon music server on the same node was found simply via smb from this laptop earlier this year and this link still exists.

The NAS's IP address is found by the ping command.

Synology Assistant does not find the NAS in the laptop's usual home but does near the BT Smart Hub 2 router at the other end of the house.

A browser finds the NAS in external mode (port 5000), and both FTP and Synology Drive works.  These are both external connections, of course.

A MacOS laptop set up an smb connection in the remote position in seconds and both the browser of this and of an iPad connects to the NAS via the internal network.

The Linux laptop's simple firewall allows all outgoing connections (and it does not help if it is disabled) and no firewall is activated on the NAS.

Everything in the network has a 192.168.1.xxx IP address.

All I can think of is some sort of incompatibility with the nodes of the mesh system or possibly with the laptop's wifi connection method.

This is not a real problem as I have all sorts of ways of accessing files from the NAS.  However, it is more by way of an intellectual challenge and I do not like loose ends, nor the thought that the Linux system is not working as expected in conjunction with the Unix-based NAS.

Has anyone encountered this or have any thoughts?

Many thanks.

bin

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Registered: 2016-01-28

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Re: Q4OS not seeing home network workgroups

You may have better luck using smb4k to browse/access samba shares
sudo apt install smb4k
it's a nice little GUI app and I found it worked well back in the day when I was using KDE 3.5 in a windows network

q4osteam

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Re: Q4OS not seeing home network workgroups

@bin
+1

philc

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Registered: 2017-03-24

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Re: Q4OS not seeing home network workgroups

You may have better luck using smb4k to browse/access samba shares
sudo apt install smb4k
it's a nice little GUI app and I found it worked well back in the day when I was using KDE 3.5 in a windows network

Thank you, I'll look into this.

philc

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Registered: 2017-03-24

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Re: Q4OS not seeing home network workgroups

@bin
+1

What does this mean, please?

q4osteam

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Re: Q4OS not seeing home network workgroups

+1 means that we like this advice and recommend that you follow it.

q4osteam

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Re: Q4OS not seeing home network workgroups

@philc
We can also recommend you to follow Debian instructions if you want to setup Samba client using pure command line https://wiki.debian.org/Samba/ClientSetup

philc

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Registered: 2017-03-24

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Re: Q4OS not seeing home network workgroups

Thank you, @bin & Q4OS team, smb4k worked very well and had a comprehensive manual I could follow.

Not much wrong with my Realtek RTL8187B network adapter, it seems. As usual, I've learned a lot!