Mount drive

[William Shakespare]

I have a virtual machine running on Kubuntu (Oneiric Ocelot) that I access via a Windows based pc using remote desktop connection. I need to read and write on network drives that are on a Windows server for which I have permissions. I tried to set this up via Dolphin but it did not work, I'm thinkng because I didn't see a way to issue credentials (it only prompts for name, server and folder when you try to add a network drive). It's not clear to me how to specify the path to my folders on the network. If I look at Windows explorer I see:

Computer>BB001(E>Docs>Reports

However, my IS folks said the path is:

\ARX\ARX1\Res\BB001

I have an ip address for the windows server as well which I also tried.

How does one determine the proper name, sever, and folder to add a network drive in Dolphin? Would it be better just to do this at the Konsole? How?

I want to mount Computer>BB001(E>Docs>Reports on my VM. Looks like from what I've read I have to create a mount point first.

sudo mkdir -p /mnt/sharename

That's telling the VM to create a temporary subdirectory under mnt called sharename, right?

Then I have to mount the drive.

sudo mount [IP AND/OR FOLDER ON THE WINDOWS SERVER] /mnt/sharename -o \
username=username,password=password,dmask=777,fmask=777

Is this strcuture correct? How do I determine what to specify what's in brackets?

Anyway, I looked around nin the forums here and other places on the web but didn't come up with an answer.

 

[ehansen]

Long story short, you need to install Samba on your Linux machine before you can mount Windows shares. I haven't done a Windows->Linux share in a while (mostly do Linux->Windows) so I'm not sure what the command is exactly.

sudo mkdir -p /mnt/sharename

That's telling the VM to create a temporary subdirectory under mnt called sharename, right?

No, if you did "mkdir -p /tmp/sharename" then it would be a temporary subdirectory. Making a directory in /mnt is a permanent folder unless you delete it.

 

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[William Shakespare]

Ok. Did a search and I have smbclient on my Linux box. Found the following instructions for its use:

http://cri.ch/linux/docs/sk0001.html

How do I determine <windows-box>?

 

[William Shakespare]

If I type smbtree I can see my shares but how do I know which one contains the folder I want to access?

 

[Kerms]

Being massively undereducated in Windows/Windows sysadmin'ing I only can guide you in what it means
So,

mount -t smbfs -o username=<username>,password=<password> //<win-box>/<share> /mnt/<name-of-mountpoint>

`<win-box>' means the IP/domain the Windows box is bound to.
For `<share>', my best guess is the sharename of the folder/file/etc that was put up as a shared thing. If that doesn't work, do the full path in the form of `/a/b/c/d' (I guess cut off the C: at the beginning).
(The ip can be found out via `ipconfig' on the windows box.)

To make things a bit easier for yourself you can attach a domain to an IP by appending /etc/hosts on the linux box/vm with
`<IP> <WantedHostName>'.

Lastly (but almost unimportant), `/mnt' is usually the temporary mount directory and only used once in a blue moon. If you're going to want the windows shared mounted for most of the uptime of the linux box, create a dedicated directory in `/' and edit `/etc/fstab' to automount it during boot.

(Append fstab with: )

//servername/sharename /mountdirectory smbfs username=windowsuserename,password=windowspassword 0 0

Edit: Since /etc/fstab can be read by anyone, in your home directory,

echo username=mywindowsusername > .smbpasswd
echo password=mywindowspassword >> .smbpasswd
chmod 600 .smbpasswd

Then add this to fstab:
smbmount //servername/sharename /mountdirectory -o credentials=/home/myhomedirectory/.smbpasswd 0 0

Sources:
http://www.justlinux.com/nhf/Filesystems/Mounting_smbfs_Shares_Permanently.html