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So I'm at a friend and hooked up my external EXT4 HDD to his router and it recognises it and he can connect his entire family to it and everything works fine.

However, on my Ubuntu machine I can:

  • Go to my File Manager (Nemo)
  • File Connect to Server

Connection dialog

and that works fine!

but I cannot:

sudo mount -t smbfs //192.168.1.1/Fab-EXT4 /media/MichelNAS/
mount: unknown filesystem type 'smbfs'

sudo mount -t cifs //192.168.1.1/Fab-EXT4 /media/MichelNAS/
Password for root@//192.168.1.1/Fab-EXT4: 

sudo mount -t cifs -o guest //192.168.1.1/Fab-EXT4 /media/MichelNAS/
mount error(112): Host is down
Refer to the mount.cifs(8) manual page (e.g. man mount.cifs)

sudo mount -t cifs //192.168.1.1/Fab-EXT4 -o user=,password= /media/MichelNAS/ 
mount error(112): Host is down
Refer to the mount.cifs(8) manual page (e.g. man mount.cifs)

sudo mount -t cifs -o rw,noperm,sec=none //192.168.1.1/Fab-EXT4 /media/MichelNAS/
mount error(112): Host is down
Refer to the mount.cifs(8) manual page (e.g. man mount.cifs)

However:

smbclient --list=192.168.1.1 --no-pass

works perfectly and has as output:

WARNING: The "syslog" option is deprecated
Domain=[HOME] OS=[Unix] Server=[Samba 3.0.24]

    Sharename       Type      Comment
    ---------       ----      -------
    IPC$            IPC       IPC Service (mymodem Sharing Files)
    Fab-EXT4        Disk      Share Fab-EXT4 directory
Domain=[HOME] OS=[Unix] Server=[Samba 3.0.24]

    Server               Comment
    ---------            -------
    MYMODEM              mymodem Sharing Files

    Workgroup            Master
    ---------            -------
    HOME

So I'm obviously missing something completely stupid here, but I'm stumped as to why I cannot mount this share from the command line???

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You need to add the version to the options depending on the cifs version you use. So that would be for v1.0:

sudo mount -t cifs -o rw,guest,vers=1.0 //192.168.1.1/Fab-EXT4 /media/MichelNAS/

There is also vers=2.0 and vers=3.0

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    Seemingly very old Modem firmware! `vers=1.0` seemed to do the trick! – Fabby Nov 12 '18 at 17:42
  • found this answer out of the blue worked for an upgrade in pop os from 21.10 to 22.04. fstab entry was just `guest` and it failed to mount at all after upgrading. adding `guest,vers=3.0` solved it – Jeff Puckett Aug 03 '22 at 04:11
  • @JeffPuckett cool aAd to anyone else: do not still use v1.0 please :D – Rinzwind Aug 03 '22 at 08:33