auto_mounting_samba_onto_ubuntu

Alex Ooi, Melbourne

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Hometown:	Melbourne, Australia
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auto mounting samba onto ubuntu

this one is mainly for my own reference because its not something I do often and there seems to be a stack of alternatives out there... this is what works for me when mounting a windows network drive

To mount a windows network drive onto my ubuntu box I did the following:

made sure i had the smbfs package installed (using apt-get)
tested the mounting by simply using the "mount" command with the "-t smbfs" option as follows:
```
mount -t smbfs //192.168.1.200/Users 
  /home/ayqooi/mounts/example 
  -o username=ayqooi,password=password,rw
```
(the -o allows us to provide a username/password)
once that was confirmed, i unmounted it and added the following to my /etc/fstab file so that it would automatically mount my network drive everytime ubuntu started (each row corresponds to a column of the fstab file):
```
//192.168.1.200/Users     
/home/ayqooi/mounts/example    
smbfs    
username=ayqooi,password=password,rw    
0    
0
```

Comments ...

Holy Guacamole! Nobody has commented on this post yet! Why don't you make a name for yourself and be the first to do so ... Any comment whatsoever, as long as it is non-defamatory, will be welcome!