Mounting QNAP from Linux
Accessing the QNAP from Ubuntu is fairly easy.
First install “smbfs”: -
sudo apt-get install smbfs
Then it’s just a matter of creating the relevant directories in /mnt
sudo mkdir /mnt/Qdownload
sudo mkdir /mnt/public
sudo mkdir /mnt/Qmultimedia
sudo mkdir /mnt/Qweb
…and then editing /etc/fstab
//192.168.0.2/Qdownload /mnt/Qdownload cifs credentials=/root/.credentials,directio,iocharset=utf8,noacl,noperm,nosetuids,rw
//192.168.0.2/Public /mnt/public cifs credentials=/root/.credentials,directio,iocharset=utf8,noacl,noperm,nosetuids,rw
//192.168.0.2/Qmultimedia /mnt/Qmultimedia cifs credentials=/root/.credentials,directio,iocharset=utf8,noacl,noperm,nosetuids,rw
//192.168.0.2/Qweb /mnt/Qweb cifs credentials=/root/.credentials,directio,iocharset=utf8,noacl,noperm,nosetuids,rw
You then need to create a file with your username and password in it: -
sudo vi /root/.credentials
and put the following in it: -
username=user
password=pass
A simple “sudo mount -a” will mount these filesystems ready for use.
