There are lots of answers out there for this problem and they are all absurdly complicated. Here’s the easy way to do it and it takes about 2 minutes.
If you don’t have cifs installed then you’ll need to install the utils package. It’s not installed by default with lubuntu. The command is “sudo apt-get install cifs-utils”
Create a director to map this folder to in your media folder “sudo mkdir /media/{your folder name}”
Then you need to edit your fstab file. “sudo leafpad /etc/fstab”
To the end of the file add the following line; remember to replace the sections in brackets with your information
//{your drive IP address}/{any sub folders you want} /media/{your folder name} cifs username={drive_username},password={drive_password}
To test if it’s working type “sudo mount -a” if you did it wrong this will give you some useful error messages. Unfortunately cifs only supports IP addresses currently so you’re stuck with that. It’s generally a good idea to give things like a network drive a static IP address.
Earlier today I installed some updates and ended up having a problem with my mount. I had to add a version flag to the end of my fstab line to get it to work. vers=1.0 I tried vers=2.0 and vers=3.0 which did not work for me.
//192.168.1.1/volume /media/nas cifs username=****,password=****,vers=1.0