Trouble using NAS with Ubuntu

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I have been using Ubuntu for about a month. I stopped using WIndows and thought I’d try Ubuntu 24. But I’m having trouble with getting the Ubuntu apps to see and use my NAS. I have two NAS connected to my network. For example, If I open Libre writer, I see the NAS, but can not open anything. The Ubuntu file manager will show both NAS and then if I click on them I can see all the files. Once I do this in the file manager than I can open a file using Libre, but then it only opens it in read only. Which completely useless. How can I change this so that I can use this stuff without all this annoying ahssle? Thanks, Mike

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It’s helpful if you’re specific with details; Ubuntu’s main products use a year.month format (eg. Ubuntu 25.10 is the 2025-October release), with some specialist products using the year format (eg. Ubuntu Core 24 is a reduced size version of Ubuntu 24.04 LTS Server).

Are you using Ubuntu Core 24?

Using the template helps us understand what you’re using, and thus what will help you.

Myself I’m a mostly desktop user, thus am better the year.month products (eg. 24.04) rather than the year products (eg. 24) which are usually used on IoT devices or in the Cloud.

Also please note area rules.… ie.

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What technology does the NAS use to present the storage? SFTP? Samba? NFS?
You can mount these and then access them like a local file system. The “remoteness” is managed for you. Dead easy. You can mount it read/write this way and have full access

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Sorry, I have Ubuntu 24.04.3 LTS.

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OK, what sharing technology are you able to use? How is the data shared?

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Here’s what I did to get my NAS to work
install samba
sudo apt update
sudo apt install samba
modify smb.conf by adding
client min protocol = core
client min protocol = nt1
restart
sudo systemctl restart smbd
sudo systemctl restart nmbd

sudo apt update
sudo apt install cifs-utils
sudo mkdir /mnt/nas

make a credential file
sudo nano ~/.smbcredentials
added username and password then saved file

set permissions
sudo chmod 600 ~/.smbcredentials

modify fstab file
sudo nano /etc/fstab
added these lines to fstab
//192/168.1.192/freenas cifs credentials= /home/mike/
.smbcredentials, uid=1000, gid=1000, _netdev 0 0
save

sudo mount -a

This is from my memory, Mike