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Permanently mount a Windows share in Linux

Sick of manually mounting a Windows share on Linux with "mount" for it to drop off randomly? Or not really knowing if it is mounted or not?

Then make a permanent mount in fstab.

First, check you have smbfs installed

apt-get install smbfs

Now, make a mount path

mkdir /mnt/YOUR_NEW_PATH

Now we will edit /etc/fstab. Add a new line like this

//WINDOW_SERVER/SHARE_NAME  /mnt/YOUR_NEW_PATH credentials=/etc/samba/credentials 0 0

Save and exit!

Next we need to make the credentials file that will store the username and password

nano /etc/samba/credentials

Add two lines and save.

username=WINDOWS_USERNAME
password=WINDOWS_PASSWORD

Now, set permissions on the file so that only root can see it

chmod 700 /etc/samba/credentials

Now, lets mount it.

mount -a

Mount doesn't usually return anything, so a quick df -h will show that your Windows share has been permanently mounted. Go on, reboot if you don't believe me!

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