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author Brian Neal <bgneal@gmail.com>
date Thu, 30 Jan 2014 21:45:03 -0600
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1 Mounting a Synology DiskStation on Ubuntu 12.04
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4 :date: 2012-05-01 20:45
5 :tags: Linux, Ubuntu, Synology
6 :slug: mounting-a-synology-diskstation-on-ubuntu-12.04
7 :author: Brian Neal
8
9 I have a Synology DiskStation that I use for a home NAS. I didn't take good
10 notes when I got it to work with Ubuntu 10.04, so I had to fumble about when I
11 upgraded to Ubuntu 12.04 last weekend. So for next time, here is the recipe I
12 used.
13
14 First, you need to install the **cifs-utils** package::
15
16 $ sudo apt-get install cifs-utils
17
18 Next, I added the following text to my ``/etc/fstab`` file::
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20 //192.168.1.2/shared /mnt/syn cifs noauto,iocharset=utf8,uid=1000,gid=1000,credentials=/home/brian/.cifspwd 0 0
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22 Take note of the following:
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24 * Replace ``//192.168.1.2/`` with the IP address or hostname of your
25 DiskStation. Likewise, ``/shared`` is just the path on the DiskStation that I
26 wanted to mount.
27 * ``/mnt/syn`` is the mount point where the DiskStation will appear on our local
28 filesystem.
29 * I didn't want my laptop to mount the DiskStation on bootup, so I used the
30 ``noauto`` parameter.
31 * The ``uid`` and ``gid`` should match the user and group IDs of your Ubuntu
32 user. You can find this by grepping your username in ``/etc/passwd``.
33 * The ``credentials`` parameter should point to a file you create that contains
34 the username and password of the DiskStation user you want to impersonate (see
35 below).
36
37 Your ``.cifspwd`` file should look like the following::
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39 username=username
40 password=password
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42 Obviously you'll want to use the real username / password pair of a user on your
43 DiskStation.
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45 To be paranoid, you should make the file owned by root and readable only by
46 root. Do this after you get everything working::
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48 $ sudo chown root:root .cifspwd
49 $ sudo chmod 0600 .cifspwd
50
51 I created the mount point for the DiskStation with::
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53 $ sudo mkdir -p /mnt/syn
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55 Then, whenever I want to use the DiskStation I use::
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57 $ sudo mount /mnt/syn
58
59 And to unmount it::
60
61 $ sudo umount /mnt/syn
62
63 You can avoid the ``mount`` and ``umount`` commands if you remove the
64 ``noauto`` parameter from the ``/etc/fstab`` entry. In that case, Ubuntu will
65 automatically try to mount the DiskStation at startup.