Setting up a SMB NAS Mount

• Recommend your NAS account is authenticated with RO privileges on the target NAS SMB share.
• References used in this walkthrough need to be adjusted to suit your environment.
• vi is mentioned as the editor as it is usually available on most systems.

What you need:

• SMB servername: YourServer or server.ip.address (ie - 192.168.0.5)
• SMB sharename: Music (ie - //YourServer/Music)
• SMB NAS user: mediauser
• SMB NAS password: ******

Create the local mount point directory

Make the mount directory: sudo mkdir /media/MusicLibrary

Install some software to support SMB:

sudo apt-get install samba-common smbclient samba-common-bin smbclient cifs-utils -y

Test:

sudo mount -t cifs //YourServer/Music /media/MusicLibrary -o user=mediauser,pass=******

Check:

username@randy:~ $ df -h |grep Music

//YourServer/Music 13T 7.8T 4.4T 65% /media/MusicLibrary

If all good:

sudo umount /media/MusicLibrary

Automate to mount on boot:

Create a credentials file to input for fstab and add two lines:

vi ~/.smbcredentials

username=mediauser password=******

Protect:

chmod 600 ~/.smbcredentials

Edit fstab and add the mount info to the end of the file:

sudo cp /etc/fstab ~/fstab.orig

sudo vi /etc/fstab

# SMB mount for Music library:

//YourServer/Music /media/MusicLibrary cifs _netdev,credentials=/home/randy/.smbcredentials 0 0

Reload the fstab to read-in changes

sudo systemctl daemon-reload

Test:

sudo mount -a

username@randy:~ $ df -h |grep Music

//YourServer/Music 13T 7.8T 4.4T 65% /media/MusicLibrary

If your all good... test that the mount comes back after a reboot:

sudo shutdown -r now

Check that the new mountpoint is loaded automatically

username@randy:~ $ df -h |grep Music

//YourServer/Music 13T 7.8T 4.4T 65% /media/MusicLibrary

Once your done and if your paranoid about security, clear history:

username@randy:~ $ history -c