How to connect to an openmediavault shared folder from a linux machine

Hi

I have an RPi4 on which I have installed raspbian lite and openmediavault.

I hooked up my external USB device, mounted it and set up a shared folder/file share to it using the following link for instructions:

https://www.raspberrypi.com/tu…ox-raspberry-pi-tutorial/

I would like to access this from my linux devices, so installed smbclient and cifs-utils and attempted to connect using the file manager on my ubuntu device - following the instructions given in this link:

https://computingforgeeks.com/…shares-on-openmediavault/

However when I try to do this I get an error saying :

Zitat

Unable To Access Location

Failed to mount Windows share: Connection refused

Does anyone know how I can go about debugging this issue ? Any logs I might be able to look at ?

Is there some access control I need to configure on the file share ?

I do not have a firewall running on my ubuntu client machine and as far as I know not on the openmediavault machine (I have not explicitly configured one).

They are on the same subnet so presumably I do not need to open the samba port on the router ?

Thank you for you reply.

>give user privileges to the shared folder?

No I did not explicitly do that because I could not work out/find out how to do it. The links I found referred to 'Access Rights Management' whic I could not find on the Web GUI. Do you know where it is ?

Some further information - when I execute this command:

sudo mount -t cifs -o user=admin //<ipaddress>/homemedia1 /mnt/homemedia1/

I get

$ sudo mount -t cifs -o user=admin //<ipaddress>/homemedia1 /mnt/homemedia1/

Password for admin@//<ipaddress>/homemedia1:  **********               
mount error(111): could not connect to <ipaddress>Unable to find suitable address.

And the syslog output is:

...
Sep 10 19:07:25 larrycotton-Latitude-E7440 sudo[162734]: pam_unix(sudo:session): session opened for user root by (uid=0)

Sep 10 19:07:31 larrycotton-Latitude-E7440 kernel: CIFS: Attempting to mount \\<ipaddress>\homemedia1
Sep 10 19:07:31 larrycotton-Latitude-E7440 sudo[162734]: pam_unix(sudo:session): session closed for user root
Sep 10 19:07:31 larrycotton-Latitude-E7440 kernel: CIFS: VFS: Error connecting to socket. Aborting operation.

Sep 10 19:07:31 larrycotton-Latitude-E7440 kernel: CIFS: VFS: cifs_mount failed w/return code = -111
...

Humble apologies - the documentation says:

Under, Access Rights Management, User, in the Users tab, click on the +Add button.'

and I was rather blindly looking for 'Access Rights Management', but I think I have a different version - 6.0.30-1 (Shaitan) and I think the UI has changed slightly. (possibly I have been looking at the wrong version of the documentation,? It is directly under 'Users' now.

I can mount my my shared folders (existing and new) from my ubuntu laptop from both cli and filemanager - a good start. Now to try from windows and osmc.

Thank you very much for for your help