Mounting question

[Rashkae]

Bart Silverstrim wrote:
> Darren Mansell wrote:
>> On Tue, 2007-07-31 at 09:24 -0400, Bart Silverstrim wrote:
>>> I am trying to do some work with some remote Windows shares and while I 
>>> can easily mount the volume using places->connect to server, it only 
>>> mounts it under the Ubuntu desktop and some GNOME-aware applications. 
>>> If I'm trying to do work with scp or cp from a mount point, the path 
>>> doesn't exist.
>>>
>>> What is the best/easiest way to have, for example, \\windowsserver\share 
>>> mounted to \mnt\windows so I can use command line file utilities?
>>>
>> Put it in /etc/fstab ie
>>
>> //server/share    /media/windows smb
>> uid=1000,gid=1000,rw,credentials=/home/user/.smbpw 0 0
>>
>> Dont forget to apt-get smbfs
>>
>> some windows servers require you to use cifs instead of smb for the
>> filesystem.
>>
>> Make ~/.smbpw and put 
>>
>> username=yourusername 
>> password=yourpassword
> 
> Is there a way to do this on the fly, as in, "the file is need is on 
> XXXX, so I need to mount that share..." instead of putting into the 
> fstab (which if I am reading it right would mount it at boot time, but 
> please correct me if I'm wrong!)?
> 

Simple,, first, you need to install the smbfs package, (Ubuntu, sadly, 
doesn't include it by default,, bad Ubuntu)

create a directory where you want to mount this thing:

sudo mkdir /mnt/network

Then mount:

sudo mount -t cifs //computername/sharename -o 
username=remoteUser,uid=localUserName

This will prompt you for a password.

I believe mount needs the hostname for computername, and won't resolve 
NetBios only names.  If you don't have /etc/hosts entries for all your 
local computers, try using just an IP address.