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I'm new to Ubuntu and the world of Linux and am trying to get my Intel NUC with Ubuntu to access my NAS drive. I've done a fair bit of researching and have so far installed samba and added client min protocol = CORE to the conf file. This got me a little further as it would then see the volume_1 of the NAS and not just the NAS name.

Then I installed cifs but what I found for the lines of code to allow access to the drive lost me.

I get the error of unmounted folder with software access error.

So can anyone do a walk through of how to get Ubuntu to access my NAS please?

Much thanks

Mike Sacher
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I recently installed Ubuntu 20.04 LTS and took the following steps to successfully mount my Synology NAS in ~/etc/fstab. These steps were also taken in 18.04 LTS

In the NAS, I set up a share (such as Common_Files) and the users/passwords to access the share in the NAS

Then in terminal

sudo apt-get install cifs-utils

create the mount point:
sudo mkdir /media/NAS/Common_Files (or whatever you wish to call your share)

Identify the ip address of your NAS (in my case I set it to a fixed address in my router).

In fstab create the following line (replace n and nnn with the details of your ip address:

//192.168.n.nnn/Common_Files /media/NAS/Common_Files cifs username=your_user_name_in_NAS,password=your_password_in_NAS_share,rw,uid=1000,gid=500

To check that it mounts in terminal sudo mount -a The share mounts cleanly on reboot.

To provide a desktop link to the share I added Desktop Icons NG (DING) in GNOME Extensions. Using Settings in the Extension (right click on the desktop) and select Settings and select Show external drives in the desktop GnV_Common is the share name to common files on my NAS.

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I also provided an accepted answer to a similar question here for reference.

UPDATE Dec 2023 These measures continue to work in 22.04 LTS, 23.04 and 23.10 interim releases.

graham
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