This document describes how to mount CIFS shares permanently. The shares might be hosted on a Windows computer/server, or on a Linux/UNIX server running Samba.

Prerequisites

We’re assuming that:

  • Network connections have been configured properly.
  • Share username on Windows computer is YourWinUser.
  • Share password on Windows computer is YouUserPass.
  • The Windows computer’s name is servername (this can be either an IP address or an assigned name).
  • The name of the share is sharename.
  • You want to mount the share in /media/windowsshare.

CIFS installation

We run update and upgrade to make sure our repo is up to date

sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get upgrade

you’ll need the cifs-utils package in order to mount SMB shares. Just type the following command at the terminal:

sudo apt-get install cifs-utils

Create a share folder in Windows system

Create in your system folder which one you want to share with Linux via CIFS

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Mounting unprotected (guest) network folders

First, let’s create the mount directory. You will need a separate directory for each mount.

sudo mkdir /media/windowsshare

Then edit your /etc/fstab file (with root privileges)

sudo nano -l /etc/fstab

to add this line:

//servername/sharename /media/windowsshare cifs username=YourWinUser,password=YouUserPass,iocharset=utf8  0  0

Where:

  • iocharset=utf8 allows access to file with names in non-English languages. This doesn’t work with shares of devices like the Buffalo Tera Station, or Windows machines that export their shares using ISO8895-15.
  • If there is any space in the server path, you need to replace it by \040, for example //servername/My\040Documents After you add the entry to /etc/fstab type:

My working entry

##my entry
//MARCIN-PC/Users/marcin/ansible /home/marcin/ansible cifs username=msusername,password=mspassword,gid=marcin,uid=1000,iocharset=utf8,  0  0

AND DO NOT FORGER TO MONT EVRY TIME YOU RESTART I THINK

sudo mount -a

This will (re)mount all entries listed in /etc/fstab.

https://wiki.ubuntu.com/MountWindowsSharesPermanently

http://manpages.ubuntu.com/manpages/jammy/en/man8/mount.cifs.8.html

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/61554465/cannot-run-docker-from-network-mounted-directory