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Samba

Samba is the standard Windows interoperability suite for linux and unix.

Usage

Manual Mounting

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>

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 automatically mount 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

An authentication file looks like the following:

username=<username>
password=<password>

Alternatively the following line can be used inside /etc/fstab.

//<server address>/<share name>   <path to mountpoint>     cifs,nofail     username=<username>,password=<password>        0 0