Permanently mount a Windows share in Linux
Posted on April 4, 2009
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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