Netgear Readyshare <-> Dolphin

[Transistorfips]

Hi guy, another newbie here.
I installed Linuxmint 17.1 'Rebecca' KDE 32-bit and now I cannot connect the USB-Stick attached to my Netgear DGN2200 Bv3 router. The router settings are default as:

Network/Device Name
\\readyshare

Share Name
\\readyshare\USB_Storage

Read Access
All - no password

Write Access
All - no password

Folder Name
\\readyshare\USB_Storage

Volume Name
U:\USB


How and where can I set/mount or whatever so Dolphin can see the stick?

[altair4]

Not a KDE user but .........

Can you access the share directly?

Open a terminal and run:

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dolphin smb://readyshare/USB_Storage

It this thing is designed to work with a mac you should also be able to run it this way:

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dolphin smb://readyshare.local/USB_Storage

And worst case by ip address:

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dolphin smb://192.168.0.1/USB_Storage

Replace 192.168.0.1 with whatever the lan side ip address is of your router.

If you can make a connection using any of the above bookmark it - however one does that in Dolphin.

[altair4]

You could also go old school with this thing if the above doesn't work:

[1] Sorry, but I can never remember if Mint install this by default so install it anyway. If it's already there it will tell you:

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sudo apt-get install cifs-utils

[2] Create a mount point for the usb share ... let's say at /media/RNAS:

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sudo mkdir /media/RNAS

[3] Then mount the samba share manually:

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sudo mount -t cifs //192.168.0.1/USB_Storage /media/RNAS -o uid=1000

Correcting for the correct ip address.
To unmount the share:

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sudo umount /media/RNAS

Note: NAS devices seem to use very outdated versions of samba so you may need to add one more option so that the modern version that resides in Mint can communicate with the old version in your router:

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sudo mount -t cifs //192.168.0.1/USB_Storage /media/RNAS -o uid=1000,sec=ntlm

[Transistorfips]

Hi,
you posted:

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dolphin smb://192.168.0.1/USB_Storage

This example worked for me.

Thanks a lot.