I love Ubuntu but I’ve had an ongoing problem accessing my existing Buffalo NAS device. I’d been following what seemed to me to be a logical process which was to click Network, at which point I saw the device and then navigate to the folder. As is so often the case, the obvious method is not the correct one.
Here’s how to do it.
- Find out the IP Address of your NAS device. Usually, you’d do this by bringing your Router’s config screen up (usually achieved by typing http://192.168.0.1 or http://192.168.1.1 into your browser).
- If your NAS device does not have a fixed IP address (in other words, its IP address is set by the router – this is often the default setting) then you need to type the NAS device’s IP address into your browser to access its control panel and fix the IP address. This way, once the link is set up it won’t change if you turn off the NAS device or router.
- Fire up a new Nautilus/File Explorer window, select Go/New Location and type smb://[NAS Device’s IP Address . This will bring up a list of the Windows Shares on that device.
- In Ubuntu, click Places, Connect to Server. Change the Service type to “Windows Share”. Type the IP Address of the NAS device into the “Server” field. Type the name of the Windows share into the “Share” field. If you want to link to a subfolder, type its name into “Folder”.
- Click the “Add bookmark” checkbox and give the bookmark a name
- Click Connect and, hopefully, you’ll see an icon appear on your desktop and a new entry under the Places
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