Mounting storage Guides on mounting a network share on your local machine. Mount a network drive (Windows) In this guide, we will walk through adding a network drive in Windows. That means going from this: To this: Prerequisites You have connected to Tailscale. You have received the following things from me: The name of the network share created for you; The username and password you need to authenticate with. If any of these were not provided to you, please contact me. Before we begin.. I SHALL NOT BE LIABLE FOR ANY DAMAGES OR LOSSES ARISING FROM ANY USE OF THE NETWORK SHARE, INCLUDING ANY INTERRUPTIONS TO THE NETWORK SHARE, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, ANY POWER OUTAGES, SYSTEM FAILURES, NETWORK ATTACKS, SCHEDULED OR UNSCHEDULED MAINTENANCE, OR OTHER INTERRUPTIONS. YOU are responsible for keeping enough backups of your data. Recommended reading: https://www.backblaze.com/blog/the-3-2-1-backup-strategy/ With that out of the way, let's begin! Instructions First, open Windows Explorer, and navigate to This PC: Then, navigate to the Computer tab and click the Map network drive button: You should be greeted by a window that looks something like this: If you want, choose a drive letter of your choice: Then, for Folder, enter the following: \\smb.ts.joris.me\yourShareNameHere\ For example, my share is called  joris, so for me it looks like this: \\smb.ts.joris.me\joris\ Then, check the box that says "Connect using different credentials". Next, click Finish. You will see a window that looks like this: Enter the credentials I provided you, and check "Remember my credentials": Then click OK: And you're done! You will probably be greeted by the drive: In your case, there won't be any existing files. Mount a network drive (Linux NFS) Introduction This is a short manual on mounting network storage on Linux using NFS. This guide assumed that you have established a connection to my network; see Connecting to my network if you haven't already. Before we begin.. I SHALL NOT BE LIABLE FOR ANY DAMAGES OR LOSSES ARISING FROM ANY USE OF THE NETWORK SHARE, INCLUDING ANY INTERRUPTIONS TO THE NETWORK SHARE, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, ANY POWER OUTAGES, SYSTEM FAILURES, NETWORK ATTACKS, SCHEDULED OR UNSCHEDULED MAINTENANCE, OR OTHER INTERRUPTIONS. YOU are responsible for keeping enough backups of your data. Recommended reading: https://www.backblaze.com/blog/the-3-2-1-backup-strategy/ With that out of the way, let's begin! Installing dependencies We need NFS client tools to mount a drive. On Debian sudo apt install nfs-common On Arch Linux sudo pacman -S nfs-utils Mount a volume I have a separate domain used for resolving machines and services on my homelab. Take the following script and fill it out with your parameters. #!/bin/bash POOL=alpha # Leave as-is unless told otherwise. SHARE=joris # <-- Put your name here, in lower case. MOUNT=/mnt # <-- Write where you want to mount it. sudo mount truenas.storage.jorislab.nl:/mnt/$POOL/$SHARE $MOUNT And we're done! Enjoy!