Notes to Self

Alex Sokolsky's Notes on Computers and Programming

Mounting an SMB Share

Followed:

Prerequisites

Verify components are installed:

mount -t cifs
fuser

Prepare mount points

Create mount points:

mkdir ~/Movies
mkdir ~/Music

Credentials

> ls -la ~/.nas-creds
-rw------- 1 alex alex 49 Dec 16 11:13 /home/alex/.nas-creds
> cat ~/.nas-creds
username=alex
password=********
domain=nass.lan

Mount

> cat mount-nas.sh
mount -t cifs -o uid=alex,forceuid,gid=alex,forcegid,rw,credentials=/home/alex/.nas-creds \
    //192.168.10.30/movies /home/alex/Movies
mount -t cifs -o uid=alex,forceuid,gid=alex,forcegid,rw,credentials=/home/alex/.nas-creds \
    //192.168.10.30/music /home/alex/Music

Unmount

sudo umount ~/Movies