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I want to download something using firefox to a network share on a synology nas (with password security). In the file browser I can acces the share (but I cannot write to it because it is mounted read only?). But the download to window in firefox does not list network shares...So I tried to mount the share to /mnt/nas using smbmount and mount.cifs.

sudo smbmount //192.168.2.20/software /mnt/nas -o user=the_user file_mode=0777,  dir_mode=0777, dmask=777, fmask=777,umask=022 rw 0 0

This works and I can create folders. But when I point Firefox to it can't write to it..how should I mount the share as a download location for Firefox?

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  • I have the exact same issue. Nautilus and command line can write to the mounts, but Firefox and other apps can't.
    – ChrisA
    Nov 14, 2013 at 15:47

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It looks like this is a bug with GTK, that has now been patched:

https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=586367

https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/firefox/+bug/697440

I'm not sure which version of gtk you're on, but maybe updating will fix the issue, though you may need to update Ubuntu to something more recent than 12.04.

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  • Ok, 14.04 should sort it for you then. For info, I've just updated from 12.04 to 13.10 and the issue is fixed.
    – ChrisA
    Nov 20, 2013 at 11:41

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