I have a router serving its USB attached drive through SMB.
From a Windows machine, I can mount the root folder of the shared folder.
On Ubuntu, following various guides, I am able to mount the sub-folders one by one, ie:
/etc/fstab
//my-server/Music /media/asus/music cifs user,uid=ubuntuuser,credentials=/home/ubuntuuser/.asuscred,iocharset=utf8,sec=ntlm 0 0
//my-server/OS /media/asus/os cifs user,uid=ubuntuuser,credentials=/home/ubuntuuser/.asuscred,iocharset=utf8,sec=ntlm 0 0
//my-server/Pictures /media/asus/pictures cifs user,uid=ubuntuuser,credentials=/home/ubuntuuser/.asuscred,iocharset=utf8,sec=ntlm 0 0
//my-server/Videos /media/asus/videos cifs user,uid=ubuntuuser,credentials=/home/ubuntuuser/.asuscred,iocharset=utf8,sec=ntlm 0 0
...
That's fine but:
- I get an icon in the left-hand side dock for each mounted share
- If I have another folder on my USB, I need to manually add it to
/etc/fstab
How can I mount just the root somewhere?
I tried:
//my-server /media/asus/root cifs user,uid=ubuntuuser,credentials=/home/ubuntuuser/.asuscred,iocharset=utf8,sec=ntlm 0 0
Without luck.