Re: Mounting question

Bart Silverstrim wrote:
Darren Mansell wrote:
On Tue, 2007-07-31 at 09:24 -0400, Bart Silverstrim wrote:
I am trying to do some work with some remote Windows shares and while I
can easily mount the volume using places->connect to server, it only
mounts it under the Ubuntu desktop and some GNOME-aware applications.
If I'm trying to do work with scp or cp from a mount point, the path
doesn't exist.

What is the best/easiest way to have, for example, \\windowsserver\share
mounted to \mnt\windows so I can use command line file utilities?

Put it in /etc/fstab ie

//server/share /media/windows smb
uid=1000,gid=1000,rw,credentials=/home/user/.smbpw 0 0

Dont forget to apt-get smbfs

some windows servers require you to use cifs instead of smb for the
filesystem.

Make ~/.smbpw and put

username=yourusername
password=yourpassword

Is there a way to do this on the fly, as in, "the file is need is on
XXXX, so I need to mount that share..." instead of putting into the
fstab (which if I am reading it right would mount it at boot time, but
please correct me if I'm wrong!)?


Simple,, first, you need to install the smbfs package, (Ubuntu, sadly,
doesn't include it by default,, bad Ubuntu)

create a directory where you want to mount this thing:

sudo mkdir /mnt/network

Then mount:

sudo mount -t cifs //computername/sharename -o
username=remoteUser,uid=localUserName

This will prompt you for a password.

I believe mount needs the hostname for computername, and won't resolve
NetBios only names. If you don't have /etc/hosts entries for all your
local computers, try using just an IP address.

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