Dumb question : Is NAS on ethernet and laptop on wireless? Could your
router have done a firmware upgrade? Does it now have some option that
sounds like AP isolation?
Reason being that AP isolation could stop a wireless client from seeing
the NAS ... basically a lot of SMB works over broadcast and if AP
isolation is interfering with broadcasts, that could stop it working....
(yes there are workarounds to broacast SMB and most of Broadcast SMB is
anyhow deprecated, but you never know....)
On 17/02/2025 19:02, Ralph Corderoy wrote:
Hi Clive,
I've checked it is connected to both power and Ethernet, to the router
but can't find it via the PC/LT.
The router may show the NAS as a device on the network because it will see
its Ethernet MAC address and will have responded to its DHCP request for
an IP address.
I have a suspicion that it may be because Samba is not
installed/configured properly.
Is there any way I can 'find' the hardware is 'seen'
I don't have Samba here so can't experiment, but try:
smbtree -N
on your Linux PC. I understand that it will send broadcast packets to
identify what's willing to share.
Given the NAS's IP address, e.g. from the router, you can try:
nmblookup -A 192.168.1.42
smbclient -L '\192.168.1.42'
Change the IP address above to match the IP address you want to
question.
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