Common Internet File System (cifs)
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How do I mount Samba share as non-root user
Is there a step-by-step tutorial that instructs in detail how to smbmount a Samba share to be used by a non-root user on a Ubuntu 10.04 desktop?
Note: there are numerous threads on Google search ...
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How do I mount a CIFS share?
I'm using Ubuntu 11.10, and am trying to mount a freenas server. I have the server set to share in cifs and nfs with no luck.
I have tried smbmount //192.168.1.### /mnt/
I am not new to Ubuntu but ...
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“Mounting cifs URL not implemented yet” when I try to mount a samba share
I have a server for development (Ubuntu 12.04). On that machine, I have a shared folder named "projects". I tried
sudo mount -t smbfs smb://192.168.2.28/projects/myProject /mnt/myProject
on my ...
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Auto-mounting network shares per user
I have a server that has a number of CIFS shares that need to be accessed on a per-user basis. For example, I have a Music share which I have full access to, but my wife has read-only access.
When ...
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Mounted cifs share but no write permissions
Have reinstalled Ubuntu on my web dev server. On the old one I had an smbfs share setup to access a share over the local network to other Ubuntu boxes. It was setup using the following and worked fine ...
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How to map a network drive?
I am unable to map a Windows network drive in Ubuntu. I executed the following command in the terminal:
karthick@karthick:~$ sudo mount -t cifs -o username=raghu //172.29.32.184 /media/Data/
Password:...
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How can I mount cifs shares in (k)ubuntu 13.04?
In (k)ubuntu 12.10, I could mount a cifs drive (from my Apple Airport Extreme) with
sudo mount -t cifs -o user=foobar,password=foobar,rw,hard,nosetuids,noperm //192.168.1.2/Drive ~/mnt/mount_point
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Mounting cifs drive gives: mount error(22): Invalid argument
I'm trying to run:
sudo mount -t cifs //user.my-backup.com /mnt/wal_drive -o iocharset=utf8,rw,credentials=/etc/backupcredentials.txt,uid=postgres,gid=postgres,file_mode=0660,dir_mode=0770
However I ...
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Unable to mount cifs with iocharset=utf8 in trusty
When I try to mount a cifs share with option iocharset=utf8 I receive the error: mount error 79 = Can not access a needed shared library. What shared library am I missing?
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Samba mount issue under Ubuntu 17.10
I have Ubuntu 16.04 running a samba server and another 16.04 box that mounts it without issue using the fstab line //192.168.0.102/share /mnt/raid cifs user=myuser,pass=mypass. When I mount the share, ...
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mount.cifs stopped working after last kernel upgrade
Yesterday (05/21) I upgraded my Ubuntu 12.04 kernel:
uname -a:
Linux vi 3.2.0-24-generic #37-Ubuntu SMP Wed Apr 25 08:43:22 UTC 2012 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux
After the reboot all my mounts of ...
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1answer
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Console freezes on auto-complete of /mnt/folder (CIFS) share
I have a Ubuntu 14.04 server that will lock up after an undetermined amount of time when you attempt to tab-auto-complete the path of a CIFS share in the /mnt directory. I mount the share and it seems ...
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1answer
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Mounting samba share in using fstab
I tried to mount a samba share from the local network to a folder in my PC. I added the following line in fstab
sudo mount -t cifs //192.168.1.5/my/folder/ /home/mounts/localmount/
But when I do ...
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Ubuntu 17.10 issue with mount cifs
since the update to Ubuntu 17.10 my script to mount shares from a NAS does not work anymore. On older versions of Ubuntu I could use this line:
mount -t cifs -o username=t0b1,password=$pw //server....
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fstab automount smb fails
I'm trying to automount some drives with smb with fstab entries as such.
# auto mount hda shares
//hda/DeannasDocs /home/deanna/DeannasServerDocs cifs user=deanna,pasword=** 0 0
//hda/Music /...
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CIFS shares not mounting after modifying /etc/fstab
I've been able to mount my nas shares by first making directories in the /media folder, then :
sudo gedit /etc/fstab
to include the following line for each share I want to auto-mount;
//...
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1answer
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Problem with mount using option “sec=ntlmv2”
I Have a partition called D:\ shared at a Windows machine, and In my Ubuntu server 12.4 I Have this line at fstab to mount it
//10.0.0.39/D$/ /mnt/charles/ cifs user,file_mode=0777,dir_mode=0777,rw,...
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Problem with cifs-util. Mount: only root can mount [closed]
i'm trying to use cifs-utils to get files in another machine. In the other machine i've installed samba. Everything works fine if a try in the same machine (the one with samba) using cifs-util, but it ...
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CIFS FSTAB won't start at boot and mount -a doesn't work as expected
I am having a odd issues my CIFS drive. It won't mount at boot and also when the system has booted, I have tried again with mount -a but no success. It will however mount with the mount -t command and ...
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How to permanently mount a Samba share in 12.04 (gnome-shell 3.4)? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
Proper fstab entry to mount a samba share on boot?
Currently I have a number of share folders that I am using as a very simple home server for media and other files.
This ...
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Slow login when CIFS mounts are unavailable
I installed a PC with Ubuntu 14.04, Sssd and accounts in our OpenLDAP directory.
Network shares residing on our Samba server are mounted automatically when a user logs in, through pam_mount ...
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cifs share permissions
I am facing the problem with permission on cifs shares. I have a Lubuntu netbook, a Win7 notebook and a QNAP NAS.
I mounted shares on the lubuntu netbook in the fstab:
//192.168.2.49/nasdata /home/...
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Why is my machine unable to mount my SMB drives (“CIFS VFS: Error connecting to socket. Aborting operation”, return code -115)?
I have a machine running Precise (12.04 x64), and I cannot mount my SMB drives. It used to work (a week or two ago) and I didn't touch fstab! The machine hosting the shares is a commercial NAS, and ...
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1answer
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Share a local folder over LAN with CIFS
I have a folder (/share, which contains other subfolders and files) which I want it to be shared over my LAN. I've read out there that CIFS (replacing Samba) is the file system adequate to do such a ...
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smbfs/cifs won't mount
This fstab has worked for 4 Ubuntu versions. All of the sudden, it doesn't work after a reboot, but I had it working under 12.04 yesterday. It still works on another 12.04 machine with no problems.
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how can I get my fstab mounts working if they won't mount on bootup?
CIFS mount through fstab not mounting at boot
The suggested answers (a typo in fstab; _netdev) have no effect. However when I mount them with sudo mount -a there are no issues and they are mounted.
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How to let smb share mount via fstab assign full permission to new created file or directory?
How can we fstab mount a samba share that give permission 0777 (to every samba users in the write list) for new created directory or files? E.g. I created a new directory in client PC (Ubuntu 12.10), ...
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CIFS mount get dropped Ubuntu VM using VMWare
I have a Ubuntu 16.04 VM using VWWare workstation 12.5.7 with Windows 7 Host OS with a cifs mount that gets mounted at powerup. Well the mount keeps getting dropped after the connection goes idle, ls ...
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Automount of CIFS share fails during boot while mount -a works after login
I am trying to automatically mount a CIFS share on a Synology NAS during boot time. I am on a 14.04 LTS Workstation.
Everything works fine when I manually mount the share using the fstab entry, ...
