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Mounting Samba share on Ubuntu
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Mounting Samba share on Ubuntu

  1. Install package cifs-utils

     sudo apt-get install cifs-utils

  2. Create folder to mount the share into

     sudo mkdir /media/Share

  3. Create file with user credentials in your home directory

     touch ~/.smbcredentials

    3.1. Edit the file

     username=smb_username
 password=smb_password

  4. Edit /etc/fstab

     sudo nano /etc/fstab

    4.1. Add the following line (edit where necessary)

     //192.168.1.1/share /media/Share cifs credentials=/home/user/.smbcredentials,users,rw,iocharset=utf8,sec=ntlm 0 0
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