Help with mounting to Samba share

[Guest]

After much googling and searching I am close to giving up on connecting to my NAS's Samba share from my kubuntu machine. The process has been very simple on every other machine in my network (Win 7, Mac, Ubuntu HTPC), but I just can't seem to connect from my Kubuntu laptop. The issue seems to be in actually connecting to the box. Every variant of smbmount and mount produces "Unable to find suitable address." and when I tried to use smbclient I received "Connection to DiskStation failed (Error NT_STATUS_HOST_UNREACHABLE)". While using dolphin I could see the NAS's computer name under the Samba Shares -> Workgroup tree, but Dolphin displays a timeout message when I try to pull up the share. I am confident that the issue is contained to my Kubuntu laptop since I am able to connect to that share through 3+ other computers. I am at a complete loss as to what the problem could be and would greatly appreciate any help that I could get.

Thanks!

Some debugging info:

cat /etc/lsb-release | grep DISTRIB_RELEASE=
DISTRIB_RELEASE=11.10

KDE
Platform Version 4.7.4 (4.7.4)

apt-cache show grub | grep ersion
Version: 0.97-29ubuntu64
Description-en: GRand Unified Bootloader (Legacy version)


ping DiskStation
PING DiskStation.gateway.2wire.net (192.168.1.104) 56(84) bytes of data.
From kyle-ThinkPad-T420 (192.168.1.79) icmp_seq=1 Destination Host Unreachable
From kyle-ThinkPad-T420 (192.168.1.79) icmp_seq=2 Destination Host Unreachable
From kyle-ThinkPad-T420 (192.168.1.79) icmp_seq=3 Destination Host Unreachable
^C
--- DiskStation.gateway.2wire.net ping statistics ---
4 packets transmitted, 0 received, +3 errors, 100% packet loss, time 3019ms


ping 192.168.1.104
PING 192.168.1.104 (192.168.1.104) 56(84) bytes of data.
From 192.168.1.79 icmp_seq=1 Destination Host Unreachable
From 192.168.1.79 icmp_seq=2 Destination Host Unreachable
From 192.168.1.79 icmp_seq=3 Destination Host Unreachable
^C
--- 192.168.1.104 ping statistics ---
4 packets transmitted, 0 received, +3 errors, 100% packet loss, time 3013ms

dig DiskStation
; <<>> DiG 9.7.3 <<>> DiskStation
;; global options: +cmd
;; Got answer:
;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NOERROR, id: 29066
;; flags: qr aa rd ra; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 1, AUTHORITY: 1, ADDITIONAL: 1

;; QUESTION SECTION:
iskStation. IN A

;; ANSWER SECTION:
DiskStation. 0 IN A 192.168.1.104

;; AUTHORITY SECTION:
DiskStation. 41728 IN NS homeportal.gateway.2wire.net.

;; ADDITIONAL SECTION:
homeportal.gateway.2wire.net. 41728 IN A 192.168.1.254

;; Query time: 6 msec
;; SERVER: 192.168.1.254#53(192.168.1.254)
;; WHEN: Mon Feb 13 23:07:57 2012
;; MSG SIZE rcvd: 125

ifconfig DiskStation
DiskStation: error fetching interface information: Device not found

nslookup DiskStation
Server: 192.168.1.254
Address: 192.168.1.254#53

Name: DiskStation.gateway.2wire.net
Address: 192.168.1.104

[SecretCode]

You've provided plenty of debug info (which is good!) but nothing from the NAS server itself. Is it running actual Samba? Is it running any form of Linux? If so, can you post the contents of its /etc/samba/smb.conf?

I haven't touched my samba setup in ... years probably. But I'd be most concerned about the workgroup value and the various user, group and share settings.