💻 Mounting Samba share on Ubuntu

Tue, 13 Feb 2024 15:41:12 +0000

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

How to set up DNS on Ubuntu 22.04 without a netplan config.

Thu, 11 Jan 2024 09:35:05 +0000

I finally found the solution here: https://serverok.in/systemd-resolved ( Archive.org cache)

In case the link dies in the future, Create a file:

sudo mkdir /etc/systemd/resolved.conf.d/
sudo nano /etc/systemd/resolved.conf.d/dns_servers.conf

Add my DNS in this file:

[Resolve]
DNS=8.8.8.8 1.1.1.1

Then restart systemd-resolved

sudo systemctl restart systemd-resolved

It works even after reboot :-)

PS : No idea why my DNS configuration was lost during the upgrade from 20.04 to 22.04.

Ubuntu on Shelby DeNike

💻 Mounting Samba share on Ubuntu

How to set up DNS on Ubuntu 22.04 without a netplan config.