Hi you all. I recently installed Lubuntu 12.10 on my old Emachine desktop and man is it fast now! And most everything works out of the box too.

I want to connect to my Seagate Personal Cloud NAS so I can start uploading files from my desktop computer. The NAS is plugged into my wireless router.

Under Network, the NAS device shows up twice, and I don't know which one I'm supposed to use.

Under properties, the first one is named:
dnssd-domain-PersonalCloud._afpovertcp._tcp

The second one is named:
dnssd-domain-PersonalCloud._smb._tcp

Double clicking the first NAS icon prompts for a Username and Password (or connect anonymously).

The second one doesn't give the prompt until you double click on a subfolder. The Public folder is where I upload movies to stream. If I double click on that, it gives me the same prompt but also has a Domain field.

It's just me connecting to the NAS, I don't think I'm part of a "domain". Sorry, I'm really network illiterate!

Thanks for any help, Matt

Based on the DNS-SD naming, one is for AFP connectivity (legacy Apple protocol), the other for Samba connectivity.

Hey thanks! You're the first person to respond to me ever. Ubuntuforums.org...not even any views.

OK, the truth is, I've accessed my NAS files from both of these icons in Network. In fact I'm using the first one right now:
dnssd-domain-PersonalCloud._afpovertcp._tcp

I'm successfully moving movie files over to the NAS, but I'm doing them in batches of 10. Unfortunately I have a couple hundred movies to go. Last night I was doing a batch of 40gb's worth, I come back to my computer and there is a "time out" dialog box. My movies quit transferring and I couldn't even access the NAS again, until I rebooted my NAS and computer.

^^That was going to be my next topic. But first I wanted to make sure I was using the right Network "interface". I'm relying on GUI tools because I don't know the innards of Linux at all.

So I guess right now I'm using the legacy Apple protocol while I'm in Linux.

You were right! I went to the web-based setup page for my Seagate NAS. Sure enough Apple Filing Protocol was running. I went ahead and disabled it since I don't own a MAC. I also disabled the Mac "Time Machine" backup, and the Seagate Media App. So the only services running now are UPnP/DLNA (so I can stream to my TV), and Server Message Block (SMB).

I rebooted the NAS device and my computer. Now there is just one NAS device under Network, the SMB one. So I'll be using that one from here on.

One more question, at the mount prompt, should I connect Anonymously, or as a User? If User, then do I enter my Linux username and password, or the username and password I setup for the Seagate Personal Cloud? Should I leave Domain as WORKGROUP? I'll attach a screenshot. Thanks.

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Check that your NAS supports SMBv2 (or 3) if at all possible (for good security practice). The WORKGROUP can left as is - it's not really relevant in today's standalone samba server environment.

To clarify further, workgroups were facilitated with NetBIOS (which relied on SMBv1), so effectively deprecated with the move to SMBv2+. Workgroups allowed small groups of computers to interact via NetBIOS' "browsing" allowing shared network storage and printers. So from a contemporary samba perspective, workgroups don't even need to be specified.