💻 Mounting Samba share on Ubuntu
I’m mainly noting this here for myself, but perhaps someone else will find this information handy. Install package cifs-utils sudo apt-get install cifs-utils Create a folder to mount the share into sudo mkdir /media/Share Create a file with user credentials in your home directory. touch ~/.smbcredentials Edit the smbcredentials file username=smb_username password=smb_password Edit /etc/fstab sudo nano /etc/fstab Add the following line ( edit where necessary) //NASIP/shares/ /mnt/nas cifs iocharset=utf8,credentials=/home/USER/.smbcredentials,vers=3.0,iocharset=utf8,rw,sec=ntlmssp,file_mode=0644,dir_mode=0755,uid=1000,gid=1000 0 0 You can now mount the samba share with the command below ...