#MAP A SYNOLOGY DRIVE HOW TO#
#MAP A SYNOLOGY DRIVE INSTALL#

The root problem in my case, though was with the VirtualBox VM. “credentials/home/handbook/.smbcredentials”. with the “REPLACE WORDS IN RED” left out a word to replace. This article, and your article “Ubuntu 14.04 LTS: File Sharing With Samba” are very helpful. 192.168.1.5/share /media/ Ji-share cifs credentials=/home/ handbook/.smbcredentials,iocharset=utf8,gid= 1000,uid= 1000,file_mode=0777,dir_mode=0777 0 0įinally run sudo mount -a in terminal and you’ll get the network share mapped in Unity Launcher and Nautilus file browser: Now edit the fstab by running the command: sudo gedit /etc/fstabĪdd below line (one line) to the end and save it. Replace “Ji” & “741852963” with yours and save the file.ģ. Insert the username and password for accessing the remote share. Create a credentials file via: gedit ~/.smbcredentials If you need to restore your backup, run: sudo mv /etc/fstab_old /etc/fstabĢ. Make a backup by running the command below: sudo cp /etc/fstab /etc/fstab_old

Now edit the fstab file to mount network share on start up.ġ.

#MAP A SYNOLOGY DRIVE INSTALL#

sudo apt-get install libnss-winbind winbind Run below command so that your Ubuntu can resolve Windows computer name on a DHCP network. Install it from Ubuntu Software Center, or via below command: sudo apt-get install cifs-utilsģ. Install cifs-utils, which provides support for cross-platform file sharing with Microsoft Windows, OS X and other Unix systems. Paste the command below and run to create a mount point, you can replace ‘Ji-share’ to what you want. Press Ctrl+Alt+T on keyboard to open the terminal. There are a few preliminary actions we need to do before we can start mounting using cifs.ġ. There will be a few pictures to make things more clear. Not familiar with Linux command? Don’t be afraid, just paste the command into terminal and hit enter to run one by one.

#MAP A SYNOLOGY DRIVE HOW TO#

This simple tutorial shows you how to map a network drive, Windows share as example, onto Ubuntu 14.04 LTS with read and write permission permanently.Īll things will be done in a terminal window.

Map a synology drive