You can mount your Storage Box via Samba\/CIFS. You can use the following UNC path.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
If you are using your main account, the share name is\u00a0 If you are using a sub-account, you must use the username of the sub-account as the username and share name.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Linux\/Unix:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n Windows<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n \\\\<username>.your-storagebox.de\\<share_name><\/span><\/p>\n\n\n Linux<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n :In Linux-based systems, you can use the following command on the CLI to mount the file system<\/p>\n\n\n\n By adding the following line to \/\/<username>.your-storagebox.de\/backup \/mnt\/backup-server cifs iocharset=utf8,rw,credentials=\/etc\/backup-credentials.txt,uid=<system account>,gid=<system group>,file_mode=0660,dir_mode=0770 0 0<\/span><\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n The file \/etc\/backup-credentials.txt (mode 0600) <\/span>should contain two lines as follows:<\/p>\n\n\n\n In Debian-based distributions, the command is provided via the package cifs-utils.<\/p>\n\n\n\n apt-get install cifs-utils<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n On Debian Wheezy based systems, edit the parameters as follows if you are having problems:<\/p>\n\n\n\n rsize=65536,wsize=130048<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n You should also add the following lines to \/etc\/rc.local<\/span>:<\/p>\n\n\n\n FreeBSD<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n On FreeBSD, you can mount the Storage Box as follows:<\/p>\n\n\n\n Add the following line to \/etc\/fstab<\/span>:<\/p>\n\n\n\n Replace <username><\/span> with the Robot-assigned username. Also you need to use mkdir \/mnt\/storagebox<\/span> to create the local directory if it does not already exist.<\/p>\n\n\n Add the following lines to \/etc\/nsmb.conf<\/span>:<\/p>\n\n\n\n Create the crypt-string with smbutil crypt<\/span>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Windows<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n In Windows, use the following instructions to connect your Storage Box as a network drive with its own drive letter:<\/p>\n\n\n \u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n If there are errors when copying files that are 4 GB or larger, then it can help to deactivate caching. To do <\/p>\n\n\n\n To encrypt a SAMBA connection, add the following option to your mount command:\u00a0 Example:<\/p>\n\n\n mount.cifs -o seal,user=<username>,pass=<password> \/\/<username>.your-storagebox.de\/backup \/PATH\/FOLDER<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n This feature is only available in newer Linux versions (e.g. starting with Ubuntu 18.04).<\/p>\n\n\n\n <\/p>\n\n\n\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" You can mount your Storage Box via Samba\/CIFS. You can use the following UNC path. If you are using your main account, the share name is\u00a0backup. If you are using a sub-account, you must use the username of the sub-account as the username and share name. Linux\/Unix: \/\/<username>.your-storagebox.de\/<share_name> Windows \\\\<username>.your-storagebox.de\\<share_name> Instructions Linux :In Linux-based systems, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_eb_attr":"","inline_featured_image":false,"wprm-recipe-roundup-name":"","wprm-recipe-roundup-description":"","footnotes":""},"doc_category":[2815],"doc_tag":[],"class_list":["post-13924","docs","type-docs","status-publish","hentry","doc_category-storag-box"],"year_month":"2026-04","word_count":573,"total_views":"5060","reactions":{"happy":"5","normal":"0","sad":"0"},"author_info":{"name":"ahmed fathy","author_nicename":"ahmed-fathy","author_url":"https:\/\/www.hyyat.com\/en\/author\/ahmed-fathy\/"},"doc_category_info":[{"term_name":"Storage Box","term_url":"https:\/\/www.hyyat.com\/en\/kb\/storag-box\/"}],"doc_tag_info":[],"knowledge_base_info":[],"knowledge_base_slug":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hyyat.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/docs\/13924","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hyyat.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/docs"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hyyat.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/docs"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hyyat.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hyyat.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13924"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.hyyat.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/docs\/13924\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hyyat.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13924"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"doc_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hyyat.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/doc_category?post=13924"},{"taxonomy":"doc_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hyyat.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/doc_tag?post=13924"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}backup<\/span><\/code>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\/\/<username>.your-storagebox.de\/<share_name><\/span><\/code><\/p>\n\n\n\n<\/a><\/h3>\n\n\n\n
<\/a>Instructions<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
mount.cifs -o user=<username>,pass=<password> \/\/<username>.your-storagebox.de\/backup \/PATH\/FOLDER<\/code><\/pre>\n\n\n\n\/etc\/fstab<\/span><\/code>, your system will automatically mount the file system at boot. (It is a single line!):<\/p>\n\n\nusername=<username>\npassword=<password><\/code><\/pre>\n\n\n\nmodprobe cifs\necho 0 > \/proc\/fs\/cifs\/OplockEnabled<\/code><\/pre>\n\n\n\n\/\/<username>\/backup \/mnt\/storagebox smbfs rw,-N,-I=<username>.your-storagebox.de,-U=<username> 0 0<\/code><\/pre>\n\n\n[<username>]\ncharsets=UTF8:UTF8\n[<username>:<username>]\npassword=$crypt-string<\/code><\/pre>\n\n\n\n\n
Windows 8\/10<\/strong>: On the left, click on This PC<\/em>. And then at the top click on Computer<\/em> and then on Map network drive<\/em>.<\/li>\nError with files larger than 4 GB<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
-o cache=none<\/span><\/code> so, you need to mount the Storage Box with the extra parameter<\/p>\n\n\n\nEncrypt SAMBA connection<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
seal<\/code><\/p>\n\n\n\n