Thank you both for the replies. Gavin, I have searched the forums for hours, and have even read over that entire post. That post begins with the sentence "There is a problem when running games via SMB client, initialization and connection is normal, the interface ConnectX correctly displays the free space on a network drive, scan games, as is normal, they appear among others." This alone tells me this guy was further than I was, as ConnectX does nothing on my end, ConX: is never displayed. The sentence to which I assume you are referring reads: "On linux the samba version is samba 4.6.7. if this information helps you figure out why connectX wont connect to samba, or allow you to play your games, feel free to send me a PM, and let me know what you come up with." This is the only time that anyone in that thread mentioned anything remotely close to it not functioning at all in Samba version greater that 3, and even still, the sentence isn't nearly as explicit as you make it seem. Furthermore, the words workgroup and domain are not found anywhere in that thread outside of code blocks containing information from peoples smb.conf file, nor is the word domain found anywhere on the forum if searching for it. Keep in mind though, that I still thought my problem was credential based, not smb server version based, as nothing in my searches would have lead me to believe otherwise. And when I said "and have even tried limiting the SMB version to 2.1 and 2 on the server side," this was based in the knowledge of what versions of SMB Windows functions with, which for the record, has yet to make it to version 4.
/rant
As for what I learned, and what will benefit people in the future:
Netgear ReadyNAS OS6 is Debian Linux based, and therefore can be SSH'ed into. a quick login and run of smbstatus tells me my smb version is greater than 4, so I guess there's my problem.
Apparently conenctX doesn't care about workgroups, nor domains. (I have not tested this, merely taking gavin's word for it, however still find it hard to believe that smb will accept a connection to domain joined device without specifying a domain unless the account with access is local).
Since this is a ReadyNAS, I will not be manually attempting to lower the version of smb. Instead, a workaround that I will use will be to create an iSCSI LUN and attach it to a virtual server, then share that via an older version of SMB.
Workgroups and Domains are not the same, yet act similar in some ways. Google "Windows workgroup vs domain" for further reading, fairly interesting read, definitely didn't understand the differences before today.
Thank you for your replies again, as I hate posting on forums due to the response I usually get from mods: "and next time search before you ask questions that have been asked before, try searching the forum, as 99% of questions already have answers." As much as you believe this to be true, your 99% of answers are not usually explicit enough to be found through a search.
Thanks all!
