How to connect to my NAS with my RaspberryPi

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I wanted to access my DLink DNS 323 NAS from my Raspberry Pi.
Here's what I did on my stock RPI (ie: standard Raspian version installed):

• Install Samba (smbfs is deprecated, cifs-utils replaces it)

sudo apt-get install cifs-utils

• Install Samba Client (not really necessary, but why not)

sudo apt-get install smbclient

• Make the directory where it will mount to.  I put mine in /mnt, but you can put it anywhere you like

sudo mkdir /mnt/DNS323

• Edit the fstab file to add you entry:

sudo vi /etc/fstab

• Add the following line at the end:

//192.168.0.101/Volume_1  /mnt/DNS323   cifs username=guest,password=,users,auto,user_xattr  0   0

In my case, I don't restrict access to my NAS with users and passwords so I don't care that they are in plain text or that the password is blank

• To try it out enter:

sudo mount -a

• and go to the mount point to see the files on the NAS

cd /mnt/DNS323

ls

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updated Oct 06/2013

The line above for the fstab file works, however, I had some trouble accessing files on my NAS in read/write mode.  In other words, I wasn't alwasy able to modify them.

• The following line in fstab works better

//192.168.0.101/Volume_1  /mnt/DNS323   cifs guest,rw,uid=xxx,gid=yyy,iocharset=utfs,file_mode=0777,dir_mode=-777  0   0

Obviously you have to enter the uid and gif for your system (see /etc/passwd and /etc/group)

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