bgneal@4: Mounting a Synology DiskStation on Ubuntu 12.04
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bgneal@4: :date: 2012-05-01 20:45
bgneal@4: :tags: Linux, Ubuntu, Synology
bgneal@4: :slug: mounting-a-synology-diskstation-on-ubuntu-12.04
bgneal@4: :author: Brian Neal
bgneal@4: 
bgneal@4: I have a Synology DiskStation that I use for a home NAS. I didn't take good
bgneal@4: notes when I got it to work with Ubuntu 10.04, so I had to fumble about when I
bgneal@4: upgraded to Ubuntu 12.04 last weekend. So for next time, here is the recipe I
bgneal@4: used.
bgneal@4: 
bgneal@4: First, you need to install the **cifs-utils** package::
bgneal@4: 
bgneal@4:    $ sudo apt-get install cifs-utils
bgneal@4: 
bgneal@4: Next, I added the following text to my ``/etc/fstab`` file::
bgneal@4: 
bgneal@4:    //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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bgneal@4: Take note of the following:
bgneal@4: 
bgneal@4: * Replace ``//192.168.1.2/`` with the IP address or hostname of your
bgneal@4:   DiskStation. Likewise, ``/shared`` is just the path on the DiskStation that I
bgneal@4:   wanted to mount. 
bgneal@4: * ``/mnt/syn`` is the mount point where the DiskStation will appear on our local
bgneal@4:   filesystem.
bgneal@4: * I didn't want my laptop to mount the DiskStation on bootup, so I used the
bgneal@4:   ``noauto`` parameter.
bgneal@4: * The ``uid`` and ``gid`` should match the user and group IDs of your Ubuntu
bgneal@4:   user. You can find this by grepping your username in ``/etc/passwd``.
bgneal@4: * The ``credentials`` parameter should point to a file you create that contains
bgneal@4:   the username and password of the DiskStation user you want to impersonate (see
bgneal@4:   below).
bgneal@4: 
bgneal@4: Your ``.cifspwd`` file should look like the following::
bgneal@4: 
bgneal@4:    username=username
bgneal@4:    password=password
bgneal@4: 
bgneal@4: Obviously you'll want to use the real username / password pair of a user on your
bgneal@4: DiskStation.
bgneal@4: 
bgneal@4: To be paranoid, you should make the file owned by root and readable only by
bgneal@4: root. Do this after you get everything working::
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bgneal@4:    $ sudo chown root:root .cifspwd
bgneal@4:    $ sudo chmod 0600 .cifspwd
bgneal@4: 
bgneal@4: I created the mount point for the DiskStation with::
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bgneal@4:    $ sudo mkdir -p /mnt/syn
bgneal@4: 
bgneal@4: Then, whenever I want to use the DiskStation I use::
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bgneal@4:    $ sudo mount /mnt/syn
bgneal@4: 
bgneal@4: And to unmount it::
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bgneal@4:    $ sudo umount /mnt/syn
bgneal@4: 
bgneal@4: You can avoid the ``mount`` and ``umount`` commands if you remove the
bgneal@4: ``noauto`` parameter from the ``/etc/fstab`` entry. In that case, Ubuntu will
bgneal@4: automatically try to mount the DiskStation at startup.