Samba

References

• http://en.opensuse.org/SDB:Access_to_Windows_Shares
• See local documentation at /usr/share/doc/packages/samba/htmldocs (requires package samba documentation)

Packages

In Ubuntu, install the packages samba and smbfs.

Samba Client

• To mount a samba share in Linux (see [1]):

$ mkdir -p /windows/winshare
$ mount -t cifs //winmachine/testshare /windows/winshare
$ mount -t cifs -o username=user,password=secret //winmachine/testshare /windows/winshare

• Or make it an entry in /etc/fstab. Note that gid=124 refers to group sambashare.

//mnemosyne/backup /net/mnemosyne/backuprw	cifs	username=backup,allow_utime=22,umask=002,uid=999,gid=124