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The mounting of Samba shares requires a package containing `mount.cifs` in many
distributions packaged in the `cifs-utils` package to be installed.
Samba shares then can be mounted by adapting and running the following example:
`mount -t cifs //<server address>/<share name> <path to mount point> -o username=<username>,password=<password>`
Samba shares then can be mounted by adapting and running the following example.
```sh
mount -t cifs //<server address>/<share name> <path to mount point> -o username=<username>,password=<password>
```
### Automatic Mounting
The mounting of Samba shares requires a package containing `mount.cifs` in many
distributions packaged in the `cifs-utils` package to be installed.
To automount Samba shares the following line has to be adapted and added
to `/etc/fstab`:
`//<server address>/<share name> <path to mountpoint> cifs,nofail credentials=<path to authentication file> 0 0`.
To automatically mount Samba shares the following line has to be adapted and added
to `/etc/fstab`.
```txt
//<server address>/<share name> <path to mountpoint> cifs,nofail credentials=<path to authentication file> 0 0
```
An authentication file looks like the following:
```txt
username=<username>
password=<password>
```
Alternatively the following line can be used inside `/etc/fstab`.
```txt
//<server address>/<share name> <path to mountpoint> cifs,nofail username=<username>,password=<password> 0 0
```