Samba Client Mount Setup on Linux

run updates
- sudo apt-get update
- sudo apt-get upgrade
Install client software
- sudo apt-get install cifs-utils
Create a credentials file
- set permissions accordingly as this will be storing a password in plaintext
  - I used root and stored it in root home with 750 permissions
- Plaintext file with contents like
```
username=<username>
password=<password>
domain=<domain>
```
Add a line to /etc/fstab
- //<IPAddressOrHostname>/<share name> /path/to/mount/point cifs credentials=/path/to/credentials
- example: //192.168.1.36/myshare /media/myshare cifs credentials=/home/myname/credentials/samba.credentials
Make sure your fstab file is valid
- mount -a as root will mount everything in /etc/fstab
If you have permissions trouble, you can add this to the options on the fstab line after the credentials file using commas to separate arguments (this is specifically for the user and group named lskywalker)
- credentials=/path/to/credentials,file_mode=0664,dir_mode=0775,uid=lskywalker,gid=lskywalker
Conecting to an Airport might require you to add sec=ntlm to the above arguments
This share should be mounted on every boot now

this document last modified: November 13 2017 19:20