Running a AR300M-Lite for a hotel router while traveling. Been working well for a while.
Upgraded to new firmware - 3.215 today.
I was just trying to do some file sharing from a USB - planning ahead in case I need it.
I enable file sharing but the 3 labels for the file sharing are not there
but looking at File Sharing - GL.iNet Docs
seems like they are Share via LAN, Share via WAN and Writeable.
I enabled the top two.
Running nautilus in Linux I try to connect to
smb://WifiSSID/share and I get a login screen
I try Admin and my admin gui login screen password.
Anyway - nothing seems to work.
Is there a package I can remove/reinstall to get the slider labels to show up?
But pretend I am dumb and don’t have this all figured out - point me to the docs. I think I am really close though so - maybe a few more pointers…
Are you saying is that I have to do the steps shown in the Windows section and ssh into the GLI and edit the samba config file?
If I can just use nautilus - then use username = root and use the admin password that I use to login to the gui at 192.168.8.1?
Do you have any thoughts on why the text for the slide switches don’t show up on my GUI? Or better yet how to solve that?
New question - can I do a reinstall of the F/W and if so - is the warning about keeping my settings just overkill or can I keep my settings and save from going back to 0.
Will the GLI power an NVMe M.2 SSD that I have in a case? My testing so far has been with a standard USB flash drive but just curious
Thank you thank you for taking the time to break this down for me!!
1: got it
2: not working -
Added info that I don’t think matters but just in case:
I changed my LAN IP to 10.10.9.1 - for no real good reason other than keeps the kids away.
I have dns set to a custom - Quad9 - I enjoy having different people selling my data??
In Nautilus typing in anything like - smb://10.10.9.1/share or smb://10.10.9.1/mnt/ or anything it immediately gives me:
Unable to access location
failed to mount windows share: Software caused connection abort
3: Here is what I am talking about. In the category File Sharing - I am guessing what slide switches I am enabling. Not sure why the text isn’t there.
Yes - I am using a thumbdrive that has 2 partitions on it and I was running MX-Linux with it. Not thinking that should cause any issues. Actually - I went in and viewed my grub.cfg file on the MX-Linux distro just to make sure - so the GL-I has no issues with the drive.
If anyone gets here with a similar problem - Yep - I did have to add a config file in ~/ssh directory
following these directions here: SSH to the Router - GL.iNet Docs .
Using nautilus and trying to connect to smb://10.10.9.1/share or smb://10.10.9.1/GL-Samba gives me the usual error.
I went ahead and took a look at my smb.conf file.
[global]
netbios name = GL-AR300M
display charset = UTF-8
interfaces = lo br-lan
server string = GL-AR300M-79d
unix charset = UTF-8
workgroup = WORKGROUP
browseable = yes
deadtime = 30
domain master = yes
encrypt passwords = true
enable core files = no
guest account = nobody
guest ok = yes
invalid users = root
local master = yes
load printers = no
map to guest = Bad User
max protocol = SMB2
min receivefile size = 16384
null passwords = yes
obey pam restrictions = yes
os level = 20
passdb backend = smbpasswd
preferred master = yes
printable = no
security = share
smb encrypt = disabled
smb passwd file = /etc/samba/smbpasswd
socket options = TCP_NODELAY IPTOS_LOWDELAY
syslog = 2
use sendfile = yes
writeable = yes
[homes]
comment = Home Directories
browsable = no
read only = no
create mode = 0750
[GL-Samba]
path = /mnt
read only = yes
guest ok = yes
~
I would love to tell you that I understand that all but it looks like you are right - the share is named GL-Samba. I edited the smb.conf.template to allow SMB3 as max protocol. Seemed worth a try anyway. Restarted samba and still couldn’t connect - same error. Confirmed the new smb.conf file shows max protocol of 3.
Anyway - We are over my head skill wise at this point but still no file sharing.
Let me know if there is anything I should try next.
Thanks again !!
Yep - I ssh’d into the GL-I and could NOT see this NVMe drive. I confirmed a handful of other USB’s but looks like with this cable and power supply combination I can confirm this does NOT work for me.
Obviously if that becomes a NEED for me I will get a powered usb hub. Guessing that should work just fine.
The easiest next step is probably to delete 1 of the 2 partitions and start again.
If that is not feasible, look in the /etc/config/samba file and look for the sambashare name(s), then try connecting to smb://10.10.9.1/(sambashare name).
CRAZY… Just for giggles I plugged another NVMe drive in. I don’t recall what makes this one much different. I think it is smaller? But the case is different.
But same power supply and same cable powering the GL-I and I can see the files on that drive through the GL-I so it DOES work.
The power required by a NVMe drive depends somewhat on the drive model and how much of a reading/writing workout you do on it. There is still some risk that the power is marginal and may result in data corruption.
This NVMe has 4 partitions. It is a drive pulled from a Windows laptop.
The GL-I is mounting them all automagically.
The boot, the windows recovery, the windows partition and a windows user partition.
Nice. I got some old movies.
Anyway that all seems to work in Android. But I try to add them as samba shares in Nautilus and I get:
Unable to access location
Failed to mount Windows share: Software caused connection abort
I have other samba network shares at my buddies house. I don’t remember doing much different than this. Starting to think I need to be on a Linux blog since it seems the GL-I works perfectly… with my phone and not my pc
Yes - top works in SSH. I was wondering if there is a similar command that you can think of that would show the power consumption or voltage so I could monitor to see how close I am to corruption trouble on the NVMe drive…
Thanks again @wcs2228 - got me this far. Any chance you are a linux guy too and want to get me all the way there?
With 2 partitions on the USB flash drive, things did not work all and SSH showed that the 2 partitions did not get mounted. This can probably be done manually in SSH, but I did not proceed further.
With 1 partition on the USB flash drive, things looked good after I selected the correct mount point from the Current Directory drop-down in the File Sharing page. Android ES Explorer found the GL-Samba share, but could not access the share when I chose the SMB2 protocol that I normally use. When I went back and chose the SMB1 protocol, ES Explorer was able to access the share. Did you chose SMB1 or SMB2 when you used ES Explorer?
I also tried to access the share on my Ubuntu laptop and got the *Unable to access location failed to mount windows share" message that you did. I suspect that the main problem is that Ubuntu requires at least SMB2 and the router Samba is using SMB1.
When I had enabled SMB2 on another GL.iNet router, the /etc/samba/smb.conf.template file had to be modified by changing:
max protocol = SMB2
min protocol = SMB2
security = user
It worked on Ubuntu after the above changes.
I do not know of an OpenWRT utility that shows watts/voltage to the USB port. If you are only streaming/reading lightly from your NVMe drive, then you may be okay.
When I get a moment - I will move my min protocol up to 2. I didn’t even think of that. Makes perfect sense.
Basically I am getting the same thing. ES file manager works fine in Android. I can pick any partition I want. Linux gives my that other error.
I will change that setting and see what happens.
As for the watts/volts - I did some more testing - I mean I streamed a movie to my tablet from the NVMe drive and it worked without troubles. The command top showed the cpu was not taxed or struggling to do it. If the need arises - I think I will just plug it in.
Anyway - thanks again and I will report back when I can as to the results.
No more time this morning but… @wcs2228 - when you get a moment can you send your complete smb.conf.template file?
I fiddled around with a bunch of things - I can get ES Explorer working and I can break it - with regularity now…
My ES Explorer never asks for the SMB mount protocol so…
At one point I had my Linux laptop connected… don’t remember exactly what I did…
But ES stopped working so I fiddled again and broke everything and then got it back to where ES Explorer is working again. But I since haven’t gotten Linux back connected.
I think it is a SMB minimum thing or security = share vs security = user thing.
Anyway - when I have more time I will fiddle some more but until then.
Take care!
And thanks again!
