MacOS – Can’t connect to Samba Share on Linux File Server as a Guest user

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I have a File Server (Linux, Mint) running Samba which allows Windows machines on the network to connect as a Guest and read / write files to the shared folder.

I have a Mac book running El Capitan. This is unable to connect to the server and on trying to do so gives the following error

There was a problem connecting to the server "192.168.0.7"
Check the server name or IP Address...

I have tried using all of the following connection strings 

smb://192.168.0.7
smb://192.168.0.7/share
smb://user:password@192.168.0.7
smb://user:password@192.168.0.7/share

cifs://192.168.0.7
cifs://192.168.0.7/share
cifs://user:password@192.168.0.7
cifs://user:password@192.168.0.7/share

But without any success.

I can successfully connect using a username and password and am able to read/write but I am just unable to connect as a guest.

The windows (xp) machines on the network can connect as a guest and can read/write without any issues.

Best Answer

Just to rule out the obvious. Are you able to ping those IPs? Maybe even nmap them to see if any ports might be closed.

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