Mounting Windows Shares in Linux (Ubuntu)

# cat /etc/fstab
# /etc/fstab: static file system information.
#
# Use 'blkid -o value -s UUID' to print the universally unique identifier
# for a device; this may be used with UUID= as a more robust way to name
# devices that works even if disks are added and removed. See fstab(5).
#
# <file system> <mount point>   <type>  <options>       <dump>  <pass>
proc            /proc           proc    nodev,noexec,nosuid 0       0
# / was on /dev/sda1 during installation
UUID=7709d75b-9467-40c8-8e39-1d0c52178e90 /               ext4    errors=remount-ro 0       1
# /bak was on /dev/sdb1 during installation
UUID=c85d21a5-68c4-4ec4-9ce0-695d5e44bae8 /bak            ext4    defaults        0       2
# swap was on /dev/sda5 during installation
UUID=4e564935-9c47-47ea-941e-08f5f73d2175 none            swap    sw              0       0

Note

• hello_pc is the name of the Windows Machine
• Using the same name for the mount point name as well
• First do a ls -l /mnt/hello_pc (or whatever is the name of the mount point you want to create). This is to make sure you don't already have one.
• If you do and don't want to use it anymore do an “umount /mnt/hello_pc” (anything else might result in data loss!!!)

aptitude install cifs-utils
mkdir -p /mnt/hello_pc
mount -t cifs -o username=hello,password=somepassword //hello_pc/c$ /mnt/hello_pc
cd /mnt/hello_pc/
ls

Add this to /etc/fstab

# Adding Windows Share - hello_pc
//hello_pc/c$ /mnt/hello_pc smbfs auto,gid=users,fmask=0664,dmask=0775,iocharset=iso8859-15, credentials=/etc/sambapasswords 0 0

Create the password file /etc/sambapasswords with the following lines. No spaces before or after '=' on both lines.

username=hello
password=mypassword

Secure the sambapasswords file

# chown 0.0 /etc/sambapasswords
# chmod 600 /etc/sambapasswords

Command to connect to windows share with samba client

smbclient //senthil_lt/C$ -U senthil

Output

Enter senthil's password:
Domain=[SENTHIL_LT] OS=[Windows 7 Home Premium 7601 Service Pack 1] Server=[Windows 7 Home Premium 6.1]
smb: \>

root@ub4:/etc/backuppc# smbclient -L senthil_lt -U senthil
Enter senthil's password:
Domain=[SENTHIL_LT] OS=[Windows 7 Home Premium 7601 Service Pack 1] Server=[Windows 7 Home Premium 6.1]

        Sharename       Type      Comment
        ---------       ----      -------
        ADMIN$          Disk      Remote Admin
        C$              Disk      Default share
        IPC$            IPC       Remote IPC
        Users           Disk
Domain=[SENTHIL_LT] OS=[Windows 7 Home Premium 7601 Service Pack 1] Server=[Windows 7 Home Premium 6.1]

        Server               Comment
        ---------            -------

        Workgroup            Master
        ---------            -------