# CIFS / SMB Shares

## About

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`.

## 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
```

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### 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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