Failing Samba Share?

[vhbug]

I wasn't sure if this was the correct forum to ask for this kind of help, so if it isn't just delete/move the post, thank you.

None of my devices can see/connect to the NAS

I set up a NAS4Free computer, added the storage disk, set the mount point, turned on SMB/CIFS and set the share. I then set it to a static IP, and opened the ports (probably wasn't necessary at all, but I was trying to fix it myself and thought, why not?) On "Allow Hosts" I set "ALL, 127.0.0.1"
as well as enabled guests.

On the win8 PC I have the homegroup settings as open as I thought possible, and the workgroup name matches the server's settings. I've also changed one or two settings under local policy in administrative tools to allow sending LM & NTLM responses and to disable microsoft signing unless requested I believe?

I also cannot see or connect to the server on a win7 PC, a linux mint, and an android tablet. I can however ping it just fine, as well access the web gui.

The share name on the server is Kris, and the path set for it is /mnt/share/Kris

I've been trying to connect to the server by \\192.168.1.124\Kris as well as almost any other folder/path combination past \\192.168.1.124\ that of course being the static ip set

 

[vhbug]

Oh, I've also disabled the firewall on both the clients and the server

 

[ex_bubblehead]

You gotta make sure that all the I's are dotted and the T's crossed or nothing will work. If you haven't already checked out http://www.samba.org/ it would behoove you to do so. Here's the config page: http://www.samba.org/samba/docs/using_samba/ch06.html

By the way, SWAT has been deprecated by the samba team (can't be secured). Manually editing the config file/s is the way going forward.