SMB/SAMBA

Windows

First you will need to get your storage address and credentials from your account in our members area. Then you have many options of accessing your storage over SMB.

For the following examples we will assume the following:

Storage Address: mystorage.cs.esgr.in

Username: user1234

Password: WMacuuvnnxaKuiwBTrn2

File Explorer

Open an instance of File Explorer from your desktop or start menu

Click on the Computer Tab to make it active

Click on Map Network Drive

Select the Drive Letter you would like to use

in Folder type:

\\mystorage.cs.esgr.in\backup

If you want the drive to reconnect everytime you restart Windows Select Reconnect at sign-in

Click on Connect using different credentials

Click on Finish

Windows will ask you for your credentials (Username and Password) and after you enter them correctly it will open your cloud storage in File Explorer.

File Explorer - Computer Menu Map Network Drive	Credentials

Disconnect Network Drive

In order to disconnect your network drive:

Open a File Explorer

Find the Network Drive in the list and right click on it

Click on Disconnect

Disconnect Network Drive

Command Line

In a console that has administrative permissions:

Mount as Network Drive

This will mount the cloud storage on Drive Letter Q:

Mount under UNC Path

This will mount the cloud storage in a folder called MyStorageFolder inside your user profile.

Linux

Required Packages

fstab

We will assume your user in the system is myuser
Add an entry in your fstab like this:

Protecting the Username & Password

In order to avoid the leaking of username & password you can do the following:

Create the file ~/.smbcredentials:

Add the following inside the smbcredentials file:

Change the permissions of the file to be readable only from your id:

Change the fstab entry to be like this: