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Creating secure Linux shares
This week I purchased a ReadyNAS (firmware 6.9.3) for use in our university research group. We have several users on Windows, Mac and Linux. I enabled SMB and NFS. The Windows and Mac users are able ...
This works with my ReadyNAS
mount -t cifs -o username=<user>,password=<password> //<NAS-IP-Address>/<share name> /mnt
Thanks for the response. I did figure out that I could restrict access via IP, but this isn't really what I want to do.
On Windows or Mac, the first time they enter user credentials, a directory is created for that user within the ReadyNAS /home/ directory. I would like to see similar behavior for Linux, but the SMB instructions in the Netgear FAQs are very outdated; they still ask to use code like:
mount -t smb ...
but smb has been deprecated for cifs for a long time, and the provided syntax for username and password doesn't work.
Are you able to show me how to use smb/cifs on a modern Linux system to get behavior similar to Windows/Mac with user-controlled access?
This works with my ReadyNAS
mount -t cifs -o username=<user>,password=<password> //<NAS-IP-Address>/<share name> /mnt
I got this to work for accessing shared folders, thanks a lot! Tried something similar before but must have had some syntax error.
Still haven't figured out how to access a given user's folder inside the Home directory, but that's less important.
aeth wrote:
Still haven't figured out how to access a given user's folder inside the Home directory, but that's less important.
The same command should work, using <user> as the sharename. Home isn't part of the path.
mount -t cifs -o username=<user>,password=<password> //<NAS-IP-Address>/<user> /mntThis also worked perfectly! I feel like I tried this before, but clearly was doing something wrong. Thank you very much for your help, everything now working as hoped.
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