Importing from NAS on Linux (Mint)

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I FOUND THE SOLUTION!!!

After working on this all day today, I finally figured out the problems.

Doug, you were right that “mounting” a drive in Files is not the same as mounting a drive on a system level.

I had several issues caused by my randomly generated password containing characters Linux doesn’t like to see mid terminal command.

If anyone has this issue in the future, here is the fix:

  1. create an empty folder you want to mount the NAS drive to.

  2. create a text file that contains the credentials for your NAS. Format it like so:

user=XXXXXX
password=YYYYYYY

  1. edit /etc/fstab and add a line at the bottom that tells your computer to mount the drive on boot. This line references the credentials text file you just created.

This is a helpful website that walks you through everything:

https://jensd.be/229/linux/mount-windows-cifs-shares-on-linux-with-credentials-in-a-secure-way

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