Anybody know what this is?

[ell]

Trying to enable sharing in a office, nothing has worked until I logged into the router and found this screen, whats a samba login???

 

[Markverhyden]

Samba = SMB = Server Message Block. Samba is the implementation of SMB in *nix's which allows sharing FAT and NTFS over a network. Not sure how that is implemented in your situation. I see there is a USB hyper link so maybe you can attach a USB drive and share that out via the router.

 

[ell]

Samba = SMB = Server Message Block. Samba is the implementation of SMB in *nix's which allows sharing FAT and NTFS over a network. Not sure how that is implemented in your situation. I see there is a USB hyper link so maybe you can attach a USB drive and share that out via the router.

ahh, so I've been struggling to network two win 10 machines together remotely, to share a folder on one, now realizing the target shared folder is in storage attached to or in the router (Actiontec F2250) ! Its only located in network places with its own ip. but I cannot get it to share because of this samba login, its visible, they have no idea what the password is, would resetting the router be the answer?

 

[Markverhyden]

ahh, so I've been struggling to network two win 10 machines together remotely, to share a folder on one, now realizing the target shared folder is in storage attached to or in the router (Actiontec F2250) ! Its only located in network places with its own ip. but I cannot get it to share because of this samba login, its visible, they have no idea what the password is, would resetting the router be the answer?

It's definitely not in the router, that's for sure. But that type of share is completely different than what most people do. Most people do not attach a USB drive to their router. They usually attach it to a computer and share it out or get a NAS. Since you are remote ask the customer if there is anything plugged into a USB port on the F2250. If not then it's the conventional sharing we are used to doing. Is the Sharing Wizard enabled.

http://www.howtogeek.com/school/windows-network-sharing/lesson6/all/

 

[ell]

It's definitely not in the router, that's for sure. But that type of share is completely different than what most people do. Most people do not attach a USB drive to their router. They usually attach it to a computer and share it out or get a NAS. Since you are remote ask the customer if there is anything plugged into a USB port on the F2250. If not then it's the conventional sharing we are used to doing. Is the Sharing Wizard enabled.

http://www.howtogeek.com/school/windows-network-sharing/lesson6/all/

they're both win 10, sharing wizard is good, yeah this is weird, they have 3 wifi networks, the shared file and theres only two old pc's both on ethernet. I have to work on it remotely unfortunately. The shared file is some kind of database for a parts program, I bet it is a usb.

 

[Dustin Hennis]

The router is running a Linux based OS and it would appear that the smb.conf is configured for user level security access. Maybe something that can be changed if there are other settings in the GUI. User level security is deprecated, so maybe a firmware update would provide more options?