CIFS / SMB Shares

Mounting 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

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/