I’m not a complete newbie but I have limited command line
experience and worse yet a spinal condition left me without feeling in my
hands. Therefore I cannot really type and when I do it is very slow and painful
and not very accurate.I prefer to use the graphical interface when ever possible for this reason.
I need a clear and concise tutorial on how to mount a shared
Windows folder, bidirectionally or a shared folder on my NAS box with 16.04 MATE. I use a Synology NAS box and I’m using Windows 7 ultimate. I am not very good at networking and so I need something pretty straightforward. I learn very fast but most tutorials I find are all command line and they moved so fast I cannot follow.
When I use caja I have the option to right-click and share a
folder and yet my Linux boxes only show up intermittently in Windows Explorer and you can never connect to them.
I have so many questions. Do I need to install samba separately? I have a samba folder in my etc folder so I assume not. At least
that was my understanding when I installed it. I assume that I need to make
some changes to my fstab file and maybe to my smb.conf file but there are no
instructions anywhere.
Tutorials on YouTube only raise more questions than they
answer. What sort of credentials is required? I have no domain only a work
group. I use no logon password on Windows. When I try to log on to my work
group when I browse the network with Ubuntu and I come to my PC it once a
username domain and password. As I stated previously I don’t use the domain or
a password but I cannot continue without one. Why is this? Must I create a
domain and password? I would really rather not as I said my hands don’t work
and I live alone so it is a huge unnecessary hassle.
Well that is a pretty good start. Let’s start with Windows
and then move on to the NAS box.
Any help is welcome