I presume Samba is installed?
sudo apt-get install samba
Open Nautilus, press ctrll. In the address bar type smb://location.of.folder
When you use connect to server, is the new mounted now listed on the left hand side of Nautilus as a mounted drive ?
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I opened the server i shared and typed ifconfig to get the ip adress. Then I typed this command to list of shares
smbclient -L //myServerIpAdress
Then to mount it I typed these 2 commands: first to create a folder under the /mnt and then to do the mount
sudo mkdir /mnt/myFolder
sudo mount -t cifs -o username=serverUserName //myServerIpAdress/sharename /mnt/myFolder/
Then enter the server's password when asked and your mount is done under /mnt/myFolder
I just followed the Ubuntu wiki smb guide and it worked for me with Ubuntu 18.04.1
Specifically: I first creating the directory for the mount
sudo mkdir /media/NAS
I added the following line to my fstab
//192.168.1.209/public /media/NAS cifs guest,uid=1000,iocharset=utf8 0 0
and then ran
sudo mount -a
From then my NAS drive was mounted. I have rebooted my machine several times and confirmed that it now mounted and start up for me. For what its worth I'm using an Ethernet connection so it could be configured and up and running quicker than a wi-fi connection would be.
Try to mount the smb share through your fstab file. You will need root access to do this.
Start by opening a command line terminal and typing su -. If you do not know the root password try sudo su - and enter your own user account's password.
Open the /etc/fstab file through gedit or whatever text editor you are comfortable with, we'll go with gedit because its the default on ubuntu: gedit /etc/fstab.
Go to the end of the file on a new line and enter the following:
//192.168.0.254/volume1 /media/windowsshare cifs username=user,password=pass 0 0
substituting user and pass with the username and the password you used to log in. You can also substitute windowsshare with whatever name you wish.
Now save and exit the editor. Navigate to /media/ and create the folder that you named in the fstab, so in our case here we do the following:
cd /mediamkdir /media/windowsshare
Now try to mount the share from the fstab by typing:
mount -a
This command tells ubuntu: "Mount all filesystems defined in /etc/fstab" so it should pick up the new entry.
If there are no errors, we are golden! If there are, do let me know.
A common error could be that Ubuntu does not have mount.cifs. In this event go back to the terminal (as root) and type apt-get install cifs-utils. This will allow you to mount smb shares onto your system.
To find the files in your file browser go to File System -> media -> windowsshare.
Had the same problem many times with TPLink routers, they really don't do Linux. The below is from my Archer VR600 set up, but very similar worked with a 8980
I mount my drive with an alias in my ~/.bashrc file
alias mount-smb='mount -t cifs //192.168.1.1/volume\(sda1\) /mnt -o vers=1.0'
Confusingly the volume is called 'volume(sda1)', despite there being no support for Linux, hence the escaping of the parentheses in the bash command.
Then even more confusingly the drive is listed in the router setup as G: which can be ignored, it is not even used in windoze.
You need to access your router in advanced mode and check exactly what the volume name is, it varies wildly between different models and firmware versions.
This command mounts to /mnt and specifies version 1.0 to ensure compatibility.
You will be asked for the password for the account you set up when enabling smb access to the USB drive.