LS* linkstations and Linux

[doobre]

Hi there
The problem -
I have a problem mounting the NAS shares 'automatically' at booting up.
ONLY the 'automatic' part is not working.

Everything else is fine, Internet is fine, all local network devices are fine.
All shares on the windows PC's connect at booting up, automatically.

Manually typing ex: "smb://ls220d21e/Share_4" address in the "connect to server" box of Nautilus does mount the Nas. All 4 of them.

I can add a bookmark for the Nas shares and they work also.

Solution -

It was all caused by the buffalo Nas not being able to auto mount when set with a static IP, even though it has that option.
And they can only work on SMB1 = "NT1" in the samba world. (= Very old)

Using Winscp I made sure that the Nas were using smb v1 (required for my OPPO network players).

It took a couple of reboots of the Nas to get it straight, after re-initializing the Nas back to default (but keeping the data) adding again, the user that Plex Media Server needed and checking it was now using DHCP, the Nas' came back to life.

So if anyone else has this old hardware and linux can not get them to mount automatically at startup of the computer, don't waste your time tinkering with possible changes to 'fstab' and 'smb.conf', especially if you already know that these files are correct, just head straight to the Buffalo Nas for a full reset.
Cheers CD