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Apparently CIFS is the new Samba, so to mount your NAS via CIFS instead of Samba, read this, then change the fstab line to:

//<YOUR-NAS-IP>/<NAME-OF-NAS-SHARE> /<WHERE-YOU-WANT-TO-MOUNT-THE-NAS> cifs credentials=/root/.credentials,rw,auto,uid=<YOUR-UID-NUMBER-OR-USER-ACCOUNT-NAME>,gid=<YOUR-GID-NUMBER-OR-GROUP-NAME> 0 0

i.e. For me it’s:

//192.168.1.100/Share /mnt/Share cifs credentials=/root/.credentials,rw,auto,uid=r3dux,gid=r3dux 0 0

You might notice reference to a .credentials file above. You need to create this!!

The format of the credentials file [you can call it anything & place it anywhere - just make sure you point to it in the fstab lines(s)] is:

username=YOUR-NAS-USER-NAME
password=YOUR-NAS-PASWORD

So stick the above two lines in a file, substituting appropriately for the accounts and passwords on your NAS, then sudo chmod 600 it and remount the filesystem with sudo mount -a.

Job’s a good ‘un!

Update: Don’t forget – you’ll need to have samba, smbfs and cifs-utils installed for this to work! So go nuts with:

sudo apt-get install samba smbfs cifs-utils