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can't access HDD connected to router

Asked by Lorem

Hello, Well, I have an external hard drive connected to my router. From Windows I can access it, but from Ubuntu I can see the hard drive, but when I try to access, I'm asked for a password. However my network does not have a password neither the hard drive. What must I do? Thanks in advance!

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David Mawdsley (dm-madmod) said : 		#1

From the Windows computer see if you can change the settings on the HDD connected to the router so it's a shared drive. Also allow remote access. If you need to put in a password, use the user password for the Ubuntu computer.

Also make sure Samba is installed on the Ubuntu computer. To see if it is in terminal of the Ubuntu computer, without the quotes type: 'man samba' which should show information pages that go with the installation. If they don't appear, install samba. In that case without the quotes type: sudo apt-get install samba' That's the best I can tell you with my level of expertise.

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actionparsnip (andrew-woodhead666) said : 		#2

if you open nautilus and type in the address bar:

smb://routers.ip.address.here

Most home grade routers use 192.168.0.1 as the internal address but yours may be different. The address using this example would be:

smb://192.168.0.1

see if that works.

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