How to mount a nas drive in windows 10
How to Map a Network Drive on Windows using a Synology NAS
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today we're going to take a look at how
you can map a network drive on a windows
pc using a synology nasa's shared folder
now this is going to be a really quick
video i've received a few questions on
this and i thought it was easiest to
just quickly create a video on it but
there's a synology setup and then
there's a windows setup so we're going
to quickly look at the synology setup
and then we're going to shift over to
windows
now in dsm we have to enable smb and the
way that you can get to smb is by
opening the control panel selecting file
services then smb
from there you have to ensure that
enable smb service is selected so when
you actually map a network drive in
windows you're utilizing smb so that's
why we have to enable it here this is no
different than if you were to open up a
run command and then navigate to the
shared folder directly the difference is
that you'll be able to double click on a
drive inside of the windows file
explorer which will bring you directly
to that shared folder
so after that's enabled the second thing
you have to confirm is that if you're
using synology's firewall which i
recommend that you do i'll leave a
pop-up now if you want to set that up
but you have to select security firewall
and then edit rules and you have to
create an allow rule for windows file
server
so at this point the synology setup is
complete you have enabled smb and then
you're able to access it if you're using
synology's firewall
we're now going to shift over to windows
so i'm going to be using windows 10 but
it's very similar on windows 11.
so i'm going to open up my pc and then
i'm going to select the map network
drive icon in the top
from there we have to select a drive
letter and then in the folder section
you have to enter in backslash backslash
and then the server name of your nas or
the individual ip address so i'll leave
a link in the description that shows you
how to set up a static ip address for
your nas if you don't have one set up
but after that you then have to do
backslash and then a folder so it's
important to remember that on our nas
we're going to be connecting directly to
a folder so we're going to be entering
in that folder here and then at the
bottom we're going to select connect
using different credentials
and that's just going to be so that we
can use a user account on our synology
nas now it's important to remember as
well that you have to have a user
account that has permission to that
folder that you're going to be utilizing
to connect to it if you want to
automatically connect to this folder at
sign in you can select reconnect at sign
in
and then after selecting finish you're
going to have to enter in a username and
password for your nas
so once again ensure that the user
account has permission to the shared
folder that you selected before and
after that you can select remember my
credentials if you want the credentials
to automatically be remembered and then
after you select ok you'll see at the
bottom under network locations that you
now have the shared folder mapped
so you can do this for as many folders
as you'd like and you'll have a
different drive for each and every one
of them so you'll just be able to
quickly double click into it access the
information and when you add edit or
remove any files from this location
you're actually editing them directly on
the nasa itself so this is great if you
want to just quickly copy a bunch of
files from your local pc directly to
your nas
or if you don't want to use a tool like
synology drive and you just want to copy
files directly from your pc to your nas
so i'm hoping that this video helped you
guys out if you have any questions feel
free to leave them in the comments if
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