network share drives me mad

[Wirezfree]

Hi,

I can feel your pain, a couple of months ago I was facing various Networking/NAS challenges.
After a lot of help on the LL Forum, and Googling I did various things to make it work for me.
YMMV, but for me it's working. I will try to list what I checked and did.

1. I used a fixed IP address on my NAS in it's Network settings, I used the next address up from my Router, e.g Router 192.168.10.10 and NAS = 192.168.10.11
2. I made sure all PC's, NAS and Router are in the same Workgroup, normally the default is "Workgroup", unless you have changed anything.?
3. I ensured the Shares and Users on the NAS had the right Users with Read/Write access to the Shares.
4. I wanted the the "Shares" to be always be connected at Bootup, so I did the following:

> In my /home directory I created a folder called Zshare so it looked like /home/dave/Zshare
  Inside Zshare I created 3 folders to correspond to my NAS Shares: /Archive  /Backup  /Files

> I Then I edited my /etc/rc.local file

Code:

gksu leafpad /etc/rc.local

and then added mount points from my NAS to the the corresponding Zshare folders at the end of the rc.local file.
Note, username & password are your normal login username/password, there are ways to to hide this, but it requires more steps.

Code:

#!/bin/sh -e
#
# rc.local
#
# This script is executed at the end of each multiuser runlevel.
# Make sure that the script will "exit 0" on success or any other value on error.
#
# In order to enable or disable this script just change the execution
# bits.
#
# By default this script does nothing.
# Network Mount Point mapping, sleep 5 is 5 secs, allow Network to establish
sleep 5
mount -t cifs -o username=username,password=yourpassword,uid=username,gid=users //192.168.10.11/Archive /home/dave/ZShares/Archive
mount -t cifs -o username=username,password=yourpassword,uid=username,gid=users //192.168.10.11/Backup /home/dave/ZShares/Backup
mount -t cifs -o username=username,password=yourpassword,uid=username,gid=users //192.168.10.11/Files /home/dave/ZShares/Files
exit 0

I now have it where a 100% of the time my NAS is always there at boot up, assuming its switched on.!,
It shows the 3 devices/shares in File manager on boot up with full Read/Write access.
Hope this is of some use.

Dave