# SMB connection to existing server with credentials of current user

**URL:** <https://forum.pydio.com/t/smb-connection-to-existing-server-with-credentials-of-current-user/4154>\
**Category:** Pydio Cells\
**Tags:** plugins\
**Created:** [November 15, 2021, 7:30pm UTC](https://forum.pydio.com/t/smb-connection-to-existing-server-with-credentials-of-current-user/4154 "2021-11-15T19:30:02Z")\
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**Author:** ![aouuwoe](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex032/user_avatar/forum.pydio.com/aouuwoe/32/1273_2.png) [@aouuwoe](https://forum.pydio.com/u/aouuwoe)\
**Post date:** [November 15, 2021, 7:30pm UTC](https://forum.pydio.com/t/smb-connection-to-existing-server-with-credentials-of-current-user/4154/1 "2021-11-15T19:30:03Z")

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Hi,

Is there a possibility to connect to a existing SMB-share without the need to mount it on system level?  
Like the old v8 plugin: [Http-ize your regular Windows file server with Pydio | Pydio](https://pydio.com/en/docs/kb/pydio-8/http-ize-your-regular-windows-file-server-pydio)

It doesn’t need alle the features from a local file system (indexing, previews, …), or at least configurable, so that every user could connect to the share to those he has permission. So you can simply copy/view/delete/edit files under the correct user. Also when on docker you always have to mount the shares manually.

Thank you.

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**Author:** ![charles](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex032/user_avatar/forum.pydio.com/charles/32/3_2.png) [@charles](https://forum.pydio.com/u/charles)\
**Post date:** [November 18, 2021, 9:31am UTC](https://forum.pydio.com/t/smb-connection-to-existing-server-with-credentials-of-current-user/4154/2 "2021-11-18T09:31:52Z")

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Hi @aouuwoe , thanks for posting.  
Unfortunately there is no such feature. Internal architecture is very different from P8, and actually the P8 implementation was not that great in terms of security.  
-c

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**Author:** ![aouuwoe](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex032/user_avatar/forum.pydio.com/aouuwoe/32/1273_2.png) [@aouuwoe](https://forum.pydio.com/u/aouuwoe)\
**Post date:** [November 20, 2021, 12:55pm UTC](https://forum.pydio.com/t/smb-connection-to-existing-server-with-credentials-of-current-user/4154/3 "2021-11-20T12:55:15Z")

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Hi,

Thank you for the explanation. Thought it would be common/easy because Nextcloud and Owncloud have this implemented. So maybe I will have to install filestash or filecloud next to Pydio for this functionality.  
Thanks.

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**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex032/uploads/pydio/original/2X/6/61f19fa52ec15fd4250db51aea351adba0e831fd.png) [@system](https://forum.pydio.com/u/system)\
**Post date:** [January 19, 2022, 12:56pm UTC](https://forum.pydio.com/t/smb-connection-to-existing-server-with-credentials-of-current-user/4154/4 "2022-01-19T12:56:00Z")

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