How to mount a windows network drive on Ubuntu Server

[NeoGreen]

I just installed and configured a Ubuntu 8.04 Server. I installed LAMP and the Samba File Server. I Know want to be able to access/mount a Windows Shared Network Drive. Is this possible? If so how? Any advice will be appreciated. Thanks.

[ezacon]

My prefered way is:

Add this line to /etc/fstab:

//smbserver/sharename /mountpoint cifs credentials=/home/user/.smbpasswd,uid=user,gid=group 0 0

Create a file called .smbpasswd wich contains:

username=user
passwod=yourpass

Now you can mount your share with:

mount /mountpoint

[david_lynch]

My prefered way is:

Add this line to /etc/fstab:

//smbserver/sharename /mountpoint cifs credentials=/home/user/.smbpasswd,uid=user,gid=group 0 0

Create a file called .smbpasswd wich contains:

username=user
passwod=yourpass

Now you can mount your share with:

mount /mountpoint

That works, but it's an old school way. I prefer to use autofs, to automatically mount such network drives on demand, and automatically unmount them after some configurable idle period.

I find that if windows "shares" are statically mounted for too long, they go stale and start having I/O problems.

[Iowan]

Here is a good How-To you should see.

[NeoGreen]

Thank you very much for the advice. I will try them.

[alienprdkt]

I use pmount to auto mount ntfs drives

sudo apt-get install pmount

sudo apt-get install ntfs-3g

reboot

If auto-mount failed you can try to mount your drive manually with this command:

sudo pmount-hal /dev/sda1 (or whatever drive you are trying to mount)