While you can specify the user name and the password directly in the command, that’s not especially secure, since they are then recorded in the.
The second path points to the mount point on your local machine that you created earlier. The //smb/share part refers to the actual path to the Samba share - for example, //192.168.1.7/Documents. Smbmount //smb/share /home/user/sambashare -o username= smbusername,password= smbpassword You can then mount the Samba share into the created sambashare directory using a command like: For example, you can create the sambashare folder in your home directory. Next, you have to create a mount point - a directory where the Samba share will appear. By default, you can use smbmount only as root, so if you want to be able to run it as a non-root user, you have to change its permissions by using the following command: With smbfs installed, you can mount a Samba share using smbmount, a clever little tool that mounts a Samba share to your local file system as if it were a directory on your hard disk.
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On a Debian-based system you can use either the Synaptic package manager or the sudo apt-get install smbfs command. While many Linux distributions come with smbfs preinstalled, on other distros you have to install the package.
And since both programs are available as packages for most Linux distributions, you don’t have to get your hands dirty compiling from source code and fiddling with settings.īefore you get started, check whether the smbfs package is installed on your machine. Need a simple yet effective way to back up your laptop or desktop machine to a network-attached storage device or a network hard disk running Samba? Using Samba’s smbmount utility and the grsync backup tool, you can set up a backup system that is both reliable and straightforward in use.