Help - Permanently map Windows Shares during boot up.

[eha1990]

Question #1: How do you permanently mount/map to a Windows Share folder that is on another computer?

Question #2: How do you change the permissions on a mounted Windows Share so that you can have full rights on the share network folder?

I am attempting to figure out to permanently automatically mount/map to a Windows Share on another computer when I log into Ubuntu. For example, I can manually mount the following share using:

smb://192.168.1.102/ShareFiles

But I'd like to know how to mount the Windows Share permanently at boot up. How do you change the access permissions on a mounted Windows Share so that you will have read/write rights on the share folder? I have not been able to figure this out. I have attempted to edit the /etc/fstab, but I haven't been able to figure this out either. Any assistance would be greatly appreciated.

[mbaker824]

Check out this thread for a tutorial:

http://ubuntu-utah.ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=288534


I usually have good luck googling any Linux subject I'm looking for - I found this thread by searching for "Ubuntu permanent SMB mount".

Mark

[eha1990]

Mark - Thank you for the feedback. I'll check out the post and let you know what happens. Hopefully, it will do the trick for me and resolve this annoying problem.

eha1990

[sbrandon]

Good series of instructions, but will there be a "one click" way of doing this at some time in the future? That and logging on to a Windows network easily will do alot to move Linux forward to office acceptance (obvious statement, but it is probably my main sticking point)

[Iowan]

Find a post by dmizer - in his signature is a link for mounting cifs shares - probably more up-to-date than the link in my signature for mounting smbfs shares.