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Connecting to shares

Prerequisites

You'll need the following before continuing:

  • Server DNS name or IP address 

  • Share name

Windows 10

On-Demand mount

  1. Open the 'Run' menu

    1. Press 

      Windows-key-plus-R.jpg

    2. Open it from the Start menu

    3. Enter the following command: 

      Substitute the following
      SERVER- Server’s DNS name or IP address
      SHARE-NAME- The share name you are connecting to 

      \\SERVER\SHARE-NAME


Persistent mount

  1. Open This PC from the start menu

  2. Click Map network drive from the Computer tab

  3. Select the drive letter you would like to map the share to

  4. In the Folder field, enter the following:


    Substitute the following
    SERVER- Server’s DNS name or IP address
    SHARE-NAME- The share name you are connecting to 

\\SERVER\SHARE-NAME


  1. If you're not using your domain account to authenticate against the NAS, then click Connect using different credentials and enter your login for the NAS.

  2. Ensure Re-connect at sign-in is ticked

  3. Click Finish

  4. The drive will now be mounted each time the user logs in

Mac OS X

On-Demand mount

  1. Open the 'Finder'

  2. In the 'Go' menu, click 'Connect to server'

  3. Enter the following:


    Substitute the following
    SERVER- Server’s DNS name or IP address

    SHARE-NAME - The share name you are connecting to


    smb://SERVER/SHARE-NAME


  4. Click 'Connect'

  5. You may be asked for your credentials enter your username as follows:

    Domain/AD account: YOUR-DOMAIN\username
    NAS credentials: SAMBA\username

  6. Enter your password

  7. Optionally, click 'Remember this password in my keychain'

  8. The share will now be mounted

Persistent mount

  1. Follow the steps in the 'On-Demand mount'

  2. From the 'Apple' menu, select System Preferences then select Users & Groups

  3. Under your user, go to the Login items tab

  4. Drag and drop the network drive icon into the list 

You will be prompted for credentials each time you connect to the share unless you select ‘Remember this password in my keychain’

Linux

Centos & Redhat

On-Demand mount

  1. Create a folder to mount the share onto. For example: 

    mkdir /mnt/share


  2. Run the following command in the terminal/command line: 

    Substitute the following
    SERVER- Server’s DNS name or IP address
    SHARE-NAME- The share name you are connecting to
    USERNAME- Your username
    PASSWORD- Your password
    DOMAIN- If using Active Directory users, this should be your domain, otherwise enter SAMBA as the domain 

mount.cifs \\\\SERVER\\SHARE-NAME /mnt/share -o  domain=DOMAIN,user=USERNAME,pass=PASSWORD,vers=3.0,dir_mode=0777,file_mode=0777

Persistent mount

Modifying system files incorrectly can cause the machine to become un-bootable, do this at your own risk.

  1. Create a folder to mount the share onto. For example: 

    mkdir /mnt/share


  2. Create a credential file somewhere secure, we'll create a file called/root/creds.txt: 

    domain=ExampleDomain
username=ExampleUsername
password=ExamplePassword


  3. Secure the file:  

    chown root:root /root/creds.txt
chmod 400 /root/creds.txt


  4. Modify the file system mount file, place the line below at the bottom of the config file: 
    Substitute the following
    SERVER- Server’s DNS name or IP address

    SHARE-NAME - The share name you are connecting to

    /etc/fstab

    \\SERVER\SHARE-NAME /mnt/share cifs    credentials=/root/creds.txt,vers=3.0,dir_mode=0777,file_mode=0777,_netdev,nofail 0 0