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 

      

   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
      

      CODE

      \\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

   CODE

   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:
   

   CODE

   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:
   

   CODE

   mkdir /mnt/share

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

   TEXT

   domain=ExampleDomain
   username=ExampleUsername
   password=ExamplePassword

3. Secure the file: 
   

   CODE

   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

   CODE

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