Networking

I’m mainly noting this here for myself, but perhaps someone else will find this information handy. Install package cifs-utils sudo apt-get install cifs-utils Create a folder to mount the share into sudo mkdir /media/Share Create a file with user credentials in your home directory. touch ~/.smbcredentials Edit the smbcredentials file username=smb_username password=smb_password Edit /etc/fstab sudo nano /etc/fstab Add the following line ( edit where necessary) //NASIP/shares/ /mnt/nas cifs iocharset=utf8,credentials=/home/USER/.smbcredentials,vers=3.0,iocharset=utf8,rw,sec=ntlmssp,file_mode=0644,dir_mode=0755,uid=1000,gid=1000 0 0 You can now mount the samba share with the command below ...

{{ double-space-with-newline }}For a while now I have been thinking about upgrading my network, and since moving I have been having more and more issues with my 2TB Apple Time Capsule where I am forced to reboot it often. Besides rebooting it I have also been experiencing a poor or often times slow signal now that I live in a much larger than when I lived in Denver.

AirPort 4.2 fixes connection problems and resolves security issues with WPA2 wireless networks.