Accessing NAS shared folders

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Hi,
I have a question regarding accessing my Synology NAS from OS. I store all my data on my NAS and use Samba to access it’s shared folders by Dolphin by typical “smb://19.168.1.XX/Shared folder”, which works fine. The good thing about this is I can use the NAS username(s) to connect and then got the rights I have set in the NAS.

What is not great is that I am not allowed to create new documents on the NAS from inside an application, I have to first save it to a local folder and then use Dolphin to move it to the NAS. I also have problem with opening recently used files from within a program for instance a spreadsheet in Calc, open it from Dolphin works. Apart from this all works good, but these minor issues is a little annoying in the long term.

Is there a way to improve the Samba connection to solve this? I also think I just don’t understand thus run/user/… thing so if some have an high level explanation about that it might help.

I know NFS is an alternative, but it seems way more complicated and I did never understand if I still could use the NAS user to connect, so I gave up on that.

Operating System: openSUSE Tumbleweed 20240309
KDE Plasma-versjon: 5.27.10
KDE Frameworks Version: 5.115.0
Qt-versjon: 5.15.12
Kjerneversjon: 6.7.7-1-default (64-bit)
Graphics Platform: X11
Prosessorer: 12 × AMD Ryzen 5 7600 6-Core Processor
Minne: 30,6 GiB Ram
Graphics Processor: AMD Radeon Graphics
Manufacturer: ASUS

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You need to mount the share properly so that your app can access the local mount point.

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Smb4K may be another option for casual user mounting…

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Thanks for your reply, makes sense. I have been into modifying the fstab many years ago, will read up and repeat on that now and try that first. I first started with other distros before I ended up with OS, and I am pretty sure it worked there without permanent mounting or maybe the actual file manager did the mount?, I guess that is why I expected it to work here as well, but also in Windows it would be typical to map a shared folder to a drive letter.

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Yes, Dolphin does not work like that. Instead, it uses an SMB kio client, similar to smbclient (using libsmbclient in fact). GNOME file manager uses gvfs, which effectively mounts shares as a user AFAIR.

That’s why I suggested Smb4K for user-mounting.

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BTW, this article may be of interest to you…

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That explains exactly what I have missed.

…will have a look into it.

Perfect, thanks.

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I did not find the smb4k application, but I added a few lines to the /etc/fstab and my shared Samba folders now shows up after reboot, but all seems read only. I have specified username and password in the fstab file, so how can I achieve the rights defined on the NAS?

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Could you share the current fstab line for SMB mount?

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//192.168.1.XX/Dokumenter /mnt/nas/Dokumenter cifs username=XXXXX,password=XXXXX 0 0

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Try adding uid and gid options to the fourth column:

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Sorry might need some more details on this, is the UID and GID the username / group name on the nas or my username on my OS PC?

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UID/GID must be for the user on your client machine (not NAS).

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I added UID and GID but no change, anyhow when I list a folder on the mounted share all files and directories are owned by root.
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root
When I created the /mnt/nas/shared folders it was as su.

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That should not happen when specifying the UID and GID.
Please share the updated fstab entry and make sure you’ve unmounted/remounted the share!

Edit: Perhaps try the forceuid and forcegid options along with the uid,gid.

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//192.168.1.22/Dokumenter /home/grro/Documents/Nas/Dokumenter/ cifs user=XX,password=PPPPPP 1000 1000
I found the UID in Yast> users.
All files still owned by root

I use umount /mounted folder and mount -a after any modification in fstab

If I skip the user and password, it asks for root password when I mount it.

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The right spelling is uid=1000 and gid=1000

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this
//192.168.1.22/Dokumenter /home/grro/Documents/Nas/Dokumenter/ cifs user=XX,password=PPPPPPP uid=1000 gid=1000

results in this
mount: /etc/fstab: parse error at line 13 – ignored

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user=XX,password=PPPPPPP,uid=1000,gid=1000
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:+1: :+1: :+1:

That worked.

Thanks a lot for the help, very much appreciated.