Windows Drive

Menu path: Setup > Network > Network Drives > Windows Drive

In this area, you can integrate network drives shared by Windows as well as those from Linux/Unix servers via the SMB protocol (Samba).

You can find a sample configuration at the end of this page.

To manage the drive list, proceed as follows:

• Click to create a new entry.

• Click to remove the selected entry.

• Click to edit the selected entry.

• Click to copy the selected entry.

Clicking will bring up the Add dialogue, where you can define the following settings:

• Enabled: Defines whether the configuration entry will be applied.

  ☑ The network drive will be integrated.

• Local Mount Point: The local directory under which the server directory is to be visible (default: /smbmount)

• Server: The IP address, Fully-Qualified Domain Name (FQDN) or NetBIOS name of the server.

• Share Name: Path name as exported by the Windows or Unix Samba host.

• User name: User name for your user account on the Windows or Unix Samba host.

• Password: Password for your user account on the Windows or Unix Samba host.

• User writable

  ☑ The user can not only read but also write directory contents. Otherwise, only the local root user is able to do this.

  ☐ The user can only read directory contents. (default)

Sample configuration entry

The following picture shows a sample configuration entry.

If a NetBios name is provided for Server, make sure it is not preceded by slashes, e.g. \\myComputer (wrong) vs. myComputer (correct).

For Local Mount Point, only / (Linux/Unix-style forward slash) can be used as a path separator. Note that if you enter, for example, \smbmount as a moint point, a directory called \smbmount will be created, because \ is a legal character in Linux directory names. For Share Name, however, / (Linux/Unix-style forward slash) or \ (Windows-style backward slash) can be used as a path separator.