Windows shares or Samba shares from another Linux system can be mounted permanently under Ubuntu so you don't need to mount them every time you boot your computer. You need to define those shares in your /etc/fstab. Follow the steps below.
1. Install Samba File System.
Guest Shares (Unprotected)
1.Create the mount folder.
You can place this directory where ever you want to. e.g, your Home directory or at the desktop as well.
2. Edit /etc/fstab
And paste this line at the end of that file.
Where server name can be your server's name or its ip address. Share name is obviously the name of shared directory. /media/shares is the mount directory.
Save and close this file.
3. Test your shares.
Password Protected Shares
1. Create a file within your home directory that will contain your credentials for accessing the shares.
Where <username> is your username. In that file, include these 2 lines.
Add the intended information against each field and save and close this file.
2.Change the permissions on newly created file for blocking un-authorized access.
3.Edit /etc/fstab
And paste this line at the end of that file.
Where server name is your server name. Share name is the name of shared direcotry. <username> is your own username.
Save and exit this file.
4. Test your shares.
If there are no errors reported, you can safely reboot.
For further approaches, please see the wiki page here.
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/MountWindowsSharesPermanently
Enjoy!
1. Install Samba File System.
sudo apt-get install smbfs
Guest Shares (Unprotected)
1.Create the mount folder.
sudo mkdir /media/shares
You can place this directory where ever you want to. e.g, your Home directory or at the desktop as well.
2. Edit /etc/fstab
gksudo gedit /etc/fstab
And paste this line at the end of that file.
//servername/sharename /media/shares cifs guest,uid=1000,iocharset=utf8,codepage=unicode,unicode 0 0
Where server name can be your server's name or its ip address. Share name is obviously the name of shared directory. /media/shares is the mount directory.
Save and close this file.
3. Test your shares.
sudo mount -a
Password Protected Shares
1. Create a file within your home directory that will contain your credentials for accessing the shares.
gksudo gedit /home/<username>/.smbcredentials
Where <username> is your username. In that file, include these 2 lines.
username=<user name for accessing the share> password=<password for accessing the share>
Add the intended information against each field and save and close this file.
2.Change the permissions on newly created file for blocking un-authorized access.
sudo chmod 600 /home/<username>/.smbcredentials
3.Edit /etc/fstab
gksudo gedit /etc/fstab
And paste this line at the end of that file.
//servername/sharename /media/shares cifs credentials=/home/<username>/.smbcredentials,iocharset=utf8,file_mode=0777,dir_mode=0777 0 0
Where server name is your server name. Share name is the name of shared direcotry. <username> is your own username.
Save and exit this file.
4. Test your shares.
sudo mount -a
If there are no errors reported, you can safely reboot.
For further approaches, please see the wiki page here.
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/MountWindowsSharesPermanently
Enjoy!
