Permanently Mount Network Share

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How do I permanently mount a windows network share in Ubuntu?

I’m trying to figure out how to permanently mount a windows network share in Ubuntu. Can anyone help me with the required steps?

Ask UbuntuChicoCR

The steps below have the mount points in the ‘/media/‘ folder, this follows what was recommended on some source webpages. When I started to solve this problem my mount points were setup in the ‘/mnt/‘ folder, as of now I am not sure if that will still work. You could give it a try if that’s what you want.

Sources:

MountWindowsSharesPermanently - Ubuntu Wiki

Ubuntu Wiki

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After new Ubuntu install, additional packages to add:

samba-common, samba, smbclient

Open ‘Terminal’ and enter the following commands:

Install cifs utilities

sudo apt-get install cifs-utils

Create mount points for windows shares and set permissions

sudo mkdir /media/mountName

sudo chown userId:userId /media/mountName

sudo chmod 755 /media/mountName

Create ‘credentials’ file to hold userid/password and set permissions

sudo nano ~/.smbcredentials

Enter the following 2 lines

username=windowsLoginId
password=windowsPassword

enter 'ctrl-x', then 'y' and finally 'enter' to exit and save file

Set permissions to hide username and password

sudo chmod 600 ~/.smbcredentials

Retrieve ‘uid’ and ‘gid’ values for next step

id

the ‘id’ command will output something similar to the following:

uid=1000(userId) gid=1000(userId) groups=1000(userId),4(adm),………….,1001(smbgroup)

Backup and edit ‘fstab’ to mount window share at ubuntu startup

mkdir ~/system-backups

cp /etc/fstab ~/system-backups

sudo nano /etc/fstab

at end of file enter the following line:

//winServerName/shareName /media/mountName cifs credentials=/home/userId/.smbcredentials,uid=1000,gid=1000,vers=3.0,nounix 0 0

If your share contains spaces, instead of the spaces, input:

\040

For example:

//winServerName/My\040Shared\040Drive

enter 'ctrl-x', then 'y' and finally 'enter' to exit and save file

Test mounting of windows network share

sudo mount -a

if no errors appear, the mount should appear in ‘file manager’

check mount in file manager for read/write access

Test permanent network share

shutdown and reboot pc

open ‘file manager’ and check network share

Other relevant commands

manually mount network share

sudo mount -t cifs -o username=windowsLoginId //winServerName/shareName /media/mountName

you will be prompted for the ‘password’

prepare mount point for deletion; do not run command where ‘pwd’ is ‘/media’

sudo umount /media/mountName

delete mount point

rmdir /media/mountName