How to Mount a Samba Share on Ubuntu and Debian

Samba is the standard Windows interoperability suite of programs for the Unix-based operating systems. Samba server uses SMB/CIFS protocol for a secure, stable, and file/printer sharing program.

This tutorial will help you to mount remote samba share to your Linux system.

Mounting Samba Share on Unix and Linux

Follow the step-by-step guide for the mounting of remote samba share on the Ubuntu and Debian systems. Also enables to automount shared drive even after system reboot.

• Step 1 – You need to install package cifs-utils on your system. Run the following command on the terminal for the installation.

  sudo apt install cifs-utils 

• Step 2 – After that create a directory to mount the share drive.

  sudo mkdir /media/share 

• Step 3 – Now create a credentials file to your system. Make this as a hidden file using dot (.) for security purposes. It’s good to create it in your home directory.

  nano /root/.smbcredentials 

  Set the samba username and password to the above file.

  username=smb_username
  password=smb_password
  

• Step 4 – Use the following command to mount remote samba share on a Linux system.

  sudo mount -t cifs -o rw,vers=3.0,credentials=/root/.smbcredentials //192.168.1.10/share /media/share 

  But the manually mounted file system will not remain mounted after a system reboot. To mount samba share automatically after a system reboot, complete the next step.

• Step 5 –You can make add the configuration to /etc/fstab file to auto mount remote share on system boot.Edit the below configuration file in your favorite text editor:

  sudo nano /etc/fstab 

  Add the line at end of the file as follows. Change values as per yours.

  //192.168.1.10/share /media/share cifs vers=3.0,credentials=/.smbcredentials
  

  Save file and close it.