ownCloud can connect to Windows file servers or other SMB-compatible servers with the SMB/CIFS backend.
Note
The SMB/CIFS backend requires smbclient to be installed on the ownCloud server. This should be included any any Linux distribution.
You need the following information:
Optionally, you can specify a Domain. This is useful in cases where the SMB server requires a domain and a username, and an advanced authentication mechanism like session credentials is used so that the username cannot be modified. This is concatenated with the username, so the backend gets domain\username
Note
For improved reliability and performance, we recommended installing libsmbclient-php, a native PHP module for connecting to SMB servers. It is available as php5-libsmbclient in the ownCloud OBS repositories
See Configuring External Storage (GUI) for additional mount options and information.
See External Storage Authentication mechanisms for more information on authentication schemes.