CIFS / SMB Shares
Mounting SMB Shares
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I have a couple SMB shares setup separately on my network and I mount those shares onto the server so I'd be able to manipulate and access those files without much effort and this is how I do that using /etc/fstab
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Mounting
Install cifs-utils
to be able to support SMB shares, the above package needs to be installed on the ubuntu machine.
sudo apt-get install cifs-utils

Mkdir
Make a directory that you'd like to mount your files into.
mkdir nas
Edit /etc/fstab
Here's the entry that I add to my /etc/fstab
//smb_server_ip/share_name /mount/directory cifs user=your_name,pass=your_pass 0 0
Mount all
This command mounts all drives in the fstab file.
mount -a
Verify
Running tree
on the mounted directory will yield all files on the SMB share. You can use this to verify if the files are there.
tree directory/

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