Accessing NAS drive in Ubuntu 20.04 LTS

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

1 Answer

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:

// /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.

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