Openmediavault 6 SMB folders not showing to some devices on the network
Posted: Mon Aug 15, 2022 5:48 pm
I had this problem where my Nvidia shield TV and my Android smartphone just would not detect any of my SMB shares from my Openmediavault 6 server. After some troubleshooting, I found that using NetBIOS is required for browsing shares to work https://www.nvidia.com/en-us/geforce/fo ... e/2743730/.
If you run into the same issue you can enable netbios by SSHing into your server and running the following as root in the terminal:
You should now see your SMB shares on all devices across the network.
Source OMV documentation:
https://openmediavault.readthedocs.io/e ... -variables
It might also help to add the line: server min protocol=NT1 into the SMB/CIFS Extra Options in OMV6 GUI
Let me know if this helped anyone.
If you run into the same issue you can enable netbios by SSHing into your server and running the following as root in the terminal:
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omv-env set OMV_SAMBA_NMBD_ENABLE "YES"
omv-salt stage run prepare
omv-salt stage run deploy
Source OMV documentation:
https://openmediavault.readthedocs.io/e ... -variables
It might also help to add the line: server min protocol=NT1 into the SMB/CIFS Extra Options in OMV6 GUI
Let me know if this helped anyone.