QNAP SMB shares in Ubuntu

On your QNAP NAS go to

Control Panel,

Network Access,

and enable service for the right services and ethernet 1 and/or 2.

Then in Control Panel go to TAB Win/Mac/NFS, Microsoft networking and enable file service for microsoft networking.

A standalone server will do for Home usage.

The go to TAB Privilege.

Shared Folders and create and enable the folders you want to share.

from now on you could mount these shares on your Ubuntu machine. First install and enable CIFS support.

sudo apt install cifs-utils

Now in Nautilus / Files you can add a share from the side menu (Other locations) and search under networks for your NAS. Select it and select the share on the NAS you want to mount. The first time it may ask you to accept a certificate and give credentials (name and password). Don't forget to select to remember the credentials. Nautilus is now connected to your SMB share.

But this method has a downside. You have to manually mount these shares every time you reboot your computer. You need to do that in Nautilus every time you rebooted before you can use the share from other programs. Advantage is that every user can mount his own shares.

If you want a more permanent mount and you alone use this computer, you could use this method:

first make a mountmoint for every share you want to mount:

sudo mkdir /media/sharename

sudo nano /etc/fstab

If the share is password protected enable the share with this entry in fstab:

//192.168.178.52/sharename /media/sharename cifs username=msusername,password=mspassword,iocharset=utf8,sec=ntlm 0 0

beware that these mounts are available for all users that login the Ubuntu machine.