![]() ![]() Notice the noauto flag, this will keep the volume from being mounted at boot, so when you're no longer at your workplace, it won't hang during boot trying to poll and mount that share. You can accomplish this automagically by appending the following string to your /etc/fstab configuration: //xyz.220.131.233 /media/SambaMount cifs username=abc,password=def,rw,user,noauto 0 0 ![]() Illustration of the mounted location in the Places menuĪssuming that /media/myshare exist, you would achieve this by issuing the following command: sudo mount -t cifs -o user=abc,password=def //xyz.220.131.233 /media/myshare There’s nothing wrong with mounting the directory in /home/$user/mount/someshare) ![]() If not, you would mount it in /mnt (only to follow the common namespace for mounted volumes. If you want the location to show up in the Places menu, you would mount it in /media. There are TWO "standards" of sorts for this. Ubuntu although we have not experienced any You may want to read this I m getting. sudo apt-get install cifs-utilsįrom here, you have the option of where you want to mount the location. nas recently and I m getting quite a lot slower read speeds than write. However, to mount samba volumes, you have to have CIFS support. Trying to cd to smb://xyz.220.131.233/ returnsĬannot CD to smb://xyz.220.131.233 (Name is nonexistent or not a directory).Ī Mac user in my group told me I first mount the location, but he didn't know how to do it.Īnother option here, while not directly related to having mounted the directory in nautilus is to mount the location from the command line. I've just installed Matlab and want to open this remote location. I can even drag a folder from here to the 'Places' and have a shortcut to the remote location. It then asks for the login and the password and connects. In Ubuntu, I was able to do exactly the same using Nautilus, pressing Ctrl+L and entering smb://xyz.220.131.233/. In Windows, it is accessed by going to \\xyz.220.131.233\ and entering the login abc and the password def. Therefore I dare to ask once again in the hope that someone here could explain it simply :) I have found a lot of answers to this question on the internet, tried many, but all failed one way or another. If you have configured samba correctly, itll pop right up. local to it such as this: mysambaserver.local. Open a file explorer window and in the address bar type the name of your samba server and append a. Please note: I am two weeks old in Linux. (where the smb server isnt showing up in the network). ![]()
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