I switched to a new router recently (Asus with Asuswrt-Merlin) and all of a sudden I can’t connect to the HDD that’s connected to the router. It woked flawlessly before.
If I clicke on Windows network (SMB) all I get are 2 dots (…)
I have no issue connecting to this smb share (the HDD) via my Linux PC (fstab) just he Vero can’t connect to the Network it seems.
Any idea what I might be missing …
I’d recommend changing the Samba protocol version on the asus to SMBv2 only and selecting that version under services on kodi, as it is more secure than v1. Hopefully asus-merlin will support v3 soon.
I know that this topic is about Samba shares, but may I ask why you’re sticking with Samba? I am running Merlin (xwrt on R7000) but opted for NFS export for the USB drive I have plugged into the router. It is supposed to provide better speed.
A bit offtopic here, but I’m curious how you are running firmware for a Asus router on a Netgear Nighhawk? I have a R7000, and would love to upgrade the firmware on it to opensource.
The R7000 USB3 port is in the front when there are perfectly good USB2 ports in the back. I can be quite particular and this drives me nuts that I have to plug in my hard drive in the front. That being said, I’ve been running NFS export for a few months now with very minimal issues, probably all contributed to the learning curve of NFS export options.
To correct you, OSMC is the distribution, Kodi is the software you are using, so you should say:
On Kodi I tried to mount…
Anyhow, if you had to force V2 then the server is running V2. Unless you are allowing access from the outside world to your network over the internet, I would not worry about having V2 vs V4 on a home network.