I've a windows shared folder which I can access by typing \\share\files\
in "run".
I need to use that in Ubuntu. So I added \\share\files\ /mnt/share/ cifs guest,uid=0,iocharset=utf8 0 0
in /etc/fstab
.
And then issued mount -a
. I got directory not resolvable error mount error: could not resolve address for share: Unknown error
.
I'm pretty new here, can you please help me?
Edit 1:
I tried adding //share/files/ /mnt/share/ cifs guest,uid=0,iocharset=utf8 0 0
in /etc/fstab
and issuing mount -a
command and got same error.
I used id -u
and got 0, used that in uid=0
.
Edit 2
I used IP (//192.168.1.222/files/ /mnt/share/ cifs guest,uid=0,iocharset=utf8 0 0
) instead of directory path and got the following error message
Permission denied
Refer to the mount.cifs(8) manual page (e.g. man mount.cifs)
Guest
account enabled on the Windows machine? If not, then you will need to provide credentials for this to work. If theGuest
account is not enabled and you can connect to the share from another Windows machine without supplying credentials then in that case you are (implicitly) using pass-through authentication.