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| + | ====== Mounting a Windows Share in Ubuntu ====== | ||
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| + | Make sure that smbfs is installed. If not, you'll get an error indicating "mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock". Use the following command to install it. | ||
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| + | sudo apt-get install smbfs | ||
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| + | Now, type to mount the share with the following command. | ||
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| + | mount -t cifs //server/dir -o username=joel,password=secret /mnt/server | ||
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| + | You might get an error indicating "could not find target server". If so, edit the /etc/nsswitch.conf file and add "wins" to the hosts line. | ||
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| + | hosts: files wins dns | ||
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| + | Then, install winbind. | ||
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| + | sudo apt-get install winbind | ||
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| + | Now you should be able to mount the file with the mount command specified earlier. | ||
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| + | ===== References ===== | ||
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| + | https://help.ubuntu.com/community/MountWindowsSharesPermanently. | ||