Example of Procedure for NAS Storage Auto-Mounting

Question

In Windows, I used to "Map Network Drive" and voila, it worked and was there when I started. This is what I would like to happen on Ubuntu, with a slight twist.

I'd like to, shall we say, "remap", my home folders

/home/user/video
/home/user/pictures/
/home/user/downloads/
/home/user/... (insert useful name here) 

To their actual location on my NAS. I'm using a GoFlex Home Storage Device (if that makes a difference).

So, when I start-up, and go to /home/user/pictures/ I'm actually going to /NAS/Storage/Path/To/Pictures/

I'm not familiar with the path structures of linux, so if you say "add X" to your "Y" you should be including where I can find Y.

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Bonus Points: A secondary issues I'm having right now is that Video's seem to stop after 2-5 seconds of viewing when I watch them over AFP, not sure if this is the same protocol that is used to mount but that's an additional problem.

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Here's what I've tried so far, editing /etc/fstab but sudo mount -a says "Go fstab yourself".

//192.168.0.13/GoFlex\040Home\040Personal/Pictures /home/brandon/Pictures cifs username=bbertelsen, password=****,_netdev,uid=brandon 0 0
//192.168.0.13/GoFlex\040Home\040Personal/Music /home/brandon/Music cifs username=bbertelsen, password=****,_netdev,uid=brandon 0 0
//192.168.0.13/GoFlex\040Home\040Personal/Downloads /home/brandon/Downloads cifs username=bbertelsen, password=****,_netdev,uid=brandon 0 0
//192.168.0.13/GoFlex\040Home\040Personal/Videos /home/brandon/Videos cifs username=bbertelsen, password=****,_netdev,uid=brandon 0 0

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One time mounting seems to work exactly as I would expect it to.

sudo mount -t cifs '//192.168.0.13/GoFlex Home Personal/Pictures' /home/brandon/Pictures -o username=bbertelsen,password=****,iocharset=utf8,file_mode=0777,dir_mode=0777

Solution

Something was wrong with my samba install.

sudo apt-get remove samba
sudo apt-get install samba

Then, this is how I mapped the drives

sudo gedit /etc/fstab

Added:

//192.168.0.13/GoFlex\040Home\040Personal/Pictures /home/brandon/Pictures cifs sec=lanman,file_mode=0777,dir_mode=0777,username=USER,password=PASS,iocharset=utf8 0 0
//192.168.0.13/GoFlex\040Home\040Personal/Music /home/brandon/Music cifs sec=lanman,file_mode=0777,dir_mode=0777,username=USER,password=PASS,iocharset=utf8 0 0

Comments

[mahesh]

While I couldn't find anywhere that specifies it direct from the manufacturer, it seems that other users specify: SMB, CIFS and personally I've been using it via AFPS.

[mahesh]

Actually, something that I feel I should mention is that the names for the share locations have spaces in them. For example when I click on properties and look at the location, it says: afp://[email protected]/bbertelsen/GoFlex%20Home%2‌​0Personal

[mahesh]

In 12.04, these commands did not auto mount the drive on start-up. Forcing me instead to use smbfs. However, since 12.10, I've been able to use exactly these commands.