NAS Desktop Shortcut

[skybird182]

I would like to place a shortcut to a NAS drive on my desktop.

I cannot seem to find an answer.

Thanks

[TheFu]

gnome3 doesn't allow this.
Other DEs do. Which do ou run?

Also, "NAS" could, mean nfs or cifs. Which do you use? NFS looks like a local directory, so a normal symbolic link works.

[ActionParsnip]

Once you mount it, run:

mount

What is the output please?

[skybird182]

I am using Xubuntu 20.04.1 LTS using XFCE desktop. The drive is a Buffalo NAS using SAMBA. It is connected properly to my router, but I do not want to drill through the drive tree to access the NAS drive.

How could I use a symbolic link ?

[TheFu]

Sorry, I don't know anything about XFCE and very little about Samba.

But a guess would be that you need to mount the storage using the fstab with a cifs mount (no point-n-click), then use a normal symbolic link (ln -s) to make the link. I don't know whether symlinks work to Samba mounts. They definitely do work to NFS mounts, but if you can't or won't use NFS, I just don't know. Sorry.

[Morbius1]

Does this fulfill your use case:

Right click the desktop and select: Create Launcher

Then fill in the blanks. For example I will create one for a subfolder ( Documents ) of a share ( Public ) on a server ( Orion ):
SMBLauncher.png

It wasn't clear if you wanted a subfolder of a share or the share itself. If you just want the share then I would just drop the "/documents" part of the path and just specify the share itself ( public ).