How to mount Windows Shared Folders on Debian

If you need to have easy access to Windows Shared Folders from your debian (or any other linux distro) steps are very easy!

Before starting, you need:

– Samba on your debian computer

– UserName and Password of a Windows User that can access to the shared folders

– The path of the folders (es. “//server/cartella” or “//192.168.0.1/cartella”)

– Root access on your debian computer

First of all, we need to create a local folder where to mount the shared folder:

# mkdir -p /mnt/windowsserver

Where “windowsserver” is a casual name that you can choose.

After that, you can mount the shared folder on your local folder:

# mount -t cifs //windowsserver/folder -o username=ferdy,password=MyPassword /mnt/windowsserver

Now you can easy access to /mnt/windowserver for see the file of Windows Shared Folder:

# cd /mnt/windowsserver

Great, but how to do for automount the folder at the boot of the system? Easy!

The solution stay in the file “/etc/fstab”, the file that list every filesystem to mount.

So, modify with:

# nano /etc/fstab

//windowsserver/folder /mnt/windowsserver      smbfs   username=ferdy,password=MyPassword 0 0

//windowsserver/folder /mnt/windowsserver      smbfs   username=ferdy,password=MyPassword,uid=root,gid=www-data,nounix,file_mode=0777,dir_mode=0777 0 0

If you don’t like the console, you can do these steps with a graphic utility:

# apt-get install pyneighborhood

this simple tool give us access to all computers on our network and simple mount with one click.

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//windowsserver/folder /mnt/windowsserver      cifs user,password=MyPassword,username=ferdy 0 0