Mount of NAS drive

[Saphir17]

Hello Zorin and forum...

This a recurring issue with NAS-drives and how to mount them.
I am a newbie regarding Linux so bare with me....

I have been following the support-49051 on mounting a NAS-Drive, running the following commands:

sudo apt update
sudo apt install cifs-utils

sudo mkdir /mnt/<samba_share_name>
sudo mount -t cifs //<server_ip>/<share_folder_name> /mnt/<samba_share_name_from_previous_step> -o user=,password=

and confirming the mount with :
df -h

Running fstab:
sudo nano /etc/fstab

Entering the line:
//<server_ip>/<share_folder_name> /mnt/<samba_share_name_from_previous_step> cifs user=,password=,nounix,dir_mode=0777,file_mode=0777,uid=1000,mfsymlinks,nofail 0 0

I have no knowledge to question the parameters.
At the moment it is without hidden password

After a reboot, the NAS-drive appears only seen through DoubleCommander but not through Files?
I can not see it through "Other locations" in Files .

What is the issue?

//Michael

[bwingbob]

Not sure I completely understand your problem. The mount is successful, but does not show up in files "other locations" or the mount is failing?

If you want to see the mount in the sidebar you can manually add a link to the /mnt/share directory.

You could put a "gio mount" command in your .bashrc or .profile. gio mount example

gio mounts show up in the sidebar as a mounted drive

[Saphir17]

Yes, the mount is successful.... well I guess

DoubleCommander sees it perfect, as it should be. No password or any other clicks.

But in Files there is nothing.

Sure in Files, I can enter the IP

...but that is not the way it should work.
I need a "real" drive and not a IP-address-path.

This manifest itself in other programs where I need to past in paths to the NAS-drive like this:

and this gives other "errors" as the program can not get access to the drive.

The funny thing is why Double Commander can see, it but the native Zorin / Files can not.

[bwingbob]

You are over my head, I do not know how to map a drive and make it appear to be local.

good luck.

Bob

[Saphir17]

Tanks for the input...

Yes, I just want my NAS-drive to appear as a "drive-letter" as in Windows.

I think it is close to be so as the DoubleCommander see it as \mnt\NAS-Disken