Hello, I am currently having difficulty seeing my files that I need to access from my ubuntu linux server. I have installed the nrserver on the ubuntu box but when I go to add computers it will only allow me the option of adding the windows computers on my LAN but not the server itself. I have some folders that are shared using SAMBA on the server that I need to access from the internet but after a while of searching I cannot find a solution on how to add this so that it can be accessed remotely.

Any help would be greatly appreciated,

Many thanks,

Buntubailey

Hi Buntubailey,

Thanks for using NeoRouter. You will need to install NeoRouter client package on the Ubuntu server as well. Please see section 2.3.3 "Install NeoRouter Client on Linux" in the User's Manual for detailed instructions.

Many thanks for your response, I am now out of the office so I connected to the server via putty to do the installation of the ubuntu client, it seemed to go well and installed then asked me for the domain, which I put, then my username and password but now it is just stuck on "connecting to neorouter server" and nothing else is coming up, what could be the problem, thanks again for your help

Buntubailey

If I understand correctly, both NR client and server are running on this Ubuntu. Try entering "localhost" when you are prompted for domain name. I guess your office router may not support "hairpin".

many thanks, I will give this a try when I get back to the office and post the results

OK, let me start by saying thanks so much for all of your help. Your advice about localhost worked and I can now add the ubuntu server to my list of computers. Now that I have the computer listed I can ping the computer, but when I right click from my windows box and try to select shared folders nothing happens, is there a way to find out why this is happening? Again many thanks again for all of your help.

Regards,

Buntubailey

make sure you have samba server running, and configured some network sharing folders.

first try

ps -ef | grep smbd

if you don't see any smbd processes running, you won't get any sharing folders from the Linux server.

if smbd is running, check /etc/samba/smb.conf, try something simple like this:

For some reason it still doesn't want to work, I have tried what you said, created the tmp folder, made sure that the neorouter user exits in unix and in samba but still no joy, nothing happens when I click shared folder, I wonder if there is any way to see a log to try to see why this is happening?

on windows box, try using the following command to mount the Ubuntu share. It might give you more detailed error message.

net use \\10.0.0.2\tmp\ *

something to check/try:
1. make sure your firewall does not block incoming access on interface 'nrtap' (iptables, etc);
2. make sure your samba server is listening on interface 'nrtap' (netstat);
3. make sure smbd is restarted after you change /etc/samba/smb.conf;
4. try to use smbclient to access the share folders.