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aeth
Aspirant
Apr 10, 2018
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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 ...
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  • StephenB's avatar
    StephenB
    Apr 11, 2018

    This works with my ReadyNAS

    mount -t cifs -o username=<user>,password=<password> //<NAS-IP-Address>/<share name> /mnt

     

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StephenB
Guru - Experienced User
Apr 12, 2018
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> /mnt

 

aeth's avatar
aeth
Aspirant
Apr 12, 2018

This 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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    StephenB
    Guru - Experienced User
    Apr 12, 2018
    aeth wrote:

    everything now working as hoped.

     

    Great!  Please do post back if you run into any other issues.

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