08-08-2009

Ubuntu Mount network drive using Samba

Use the following commands to mount a Windows or Samba share on the network:

mkdir /mnt/whatever
 
mount -t cifs -o username=joriso,password=PassWord123 //servername/sharename /mnt/whatever
 
 

or try:

 
mount -t smbfs -o username=joriso,password=PassWord123 //servername/sharename /mnt/whatever

To browse available shares on a server:

smbclient -L 192.168.1.7 -Ujoriso

To make a persistent connection (to will be auto-mounted on boot -) edit the /etc/fstab file and add a line similar to the following:

//ntserver/docs /mnt/samba smbfs username=docsadm,password=D1Y4x9sw 0 0

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