Cannot connect to NAS after 16.04 upgrade

I originally posted this problem in another thread implying that the culprit was Samba but now I'm not so sure so I closed that thread and started this one.

I have a WD My Cloud NAS which I've been using for several years through Nautilus using a location bookmark (smb://000.000.0.000, not all zeros of course but the ip of the device). I have smbclient installed (but not Samba itself) and all was well until the 16.04 LTS upgrade.

Now, I cannot connect to the NAS at all - no error messages, just no connection.

I originally assumed this was due to a Samba bug (and on Launchpad there are a few) but now I'm not so sure because I can't connect using Gigolo either (which uses GVFS for network connections, an entirely different method than Samba).

So far I've reinstalled smbclient, gigolo, gvfs-fuse, restarted the computer and recreated my Nautilus bookmark (several times) all with no good result.

I don't have a great deal of Linux experience and am hoping someone here can help me solve this issue.

Thanks in advance...

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Cannot connect to NAS after 16.04 upgrade