Connecting to Windows NAS devices: WD is accessible, but Buffalo LinkStation is not

Running Ubuntu 18.04.2. I have two NAS devices on my (Windows) workgroup. Ubuntu can connect to one of them (a WD MyCloud) with the SMB protocol smb://mywdshare/share, but the other NAS (Buffalo LinkStation), using smb://mylinkstation/share, returns a "Failed to mount Windows share: Connection timed out" error. I've made the most commonly suggested changes

sudo gedit /etc/samba/smb.conf
client max protocol = SMB3

but they don't make any difference. I've tried accessing the share both using Nautilus and a terminal, with the same result. Any other ideas?

1 Answer

Set 'vers=3.0' in the relevant line in /etc/fstab or as an option to mount. See

/etc/samba/smb.conf is for Samba, which you're not using here.