HOW to Mounting Samba Share

The below step by step how to create auto mounting smb share at ubuntu 8.04. Smb share is running at SME server 7.2.

1. Download and Install smbfs.
$ sudo apt-get install smbfs
2. Create new directory to mounting
$ sudo mkdir /media/temp
3 create file to save user and password
$ gksudo gedit /root/.smbcredentials
Add the following lines:

username=myusername
password=mypassword

4. Change the access files
$ sudo chmod 700 /root/.smbcredentials

5. Edit files fstab
$gksudo gedit /etc/fstab

To mount windows server, add the following lines:

//IP-sever/TEMP /media/temp/ cifs credentials=/root/.smbcredentials,file_mode=0777,dir_mode=0777,uid=1001 0 0

To mount samba linux server, add the following lines:

//IP-server/TEMP /media/temp/ smbfs credentials=/root/.smbcredentials,uid=1001 0 0