Comments on: Automatically Mounting Windows SMB Shares in Ubuntu v3

By: Mark Moran

Mark Moran — Sun, 21 Feb 2010 06:39:13 +0000

HI
I got trouble about Wine and sharing printer on winxp
Whe i use to mi app on wine, i cant print with real custom page on it.
so, how can i config my “sharing printer” on winpc with real properties?
Wine doesent support sharing printers?
‘Cose in my ubuntu 9.10 is ok printer intalled and samba is ok, but i cant defien a custom page, how can i do that?

Tkz you can send me a related link o advice. mark33sc at hotmail dot com

By: Jay

Jay — Thu, 11 Feb 2010 19:49:08 +0000

Thanks for the info. I have tried numerous combinations to get this to work. It works perfectly.

By: Tony Town

Tony Town — Thu, 21 Jan 2010 08:04:40 +0000

[SOLVED] Doh! Sorry to waste your time. I had forgotten to do #smbpassword -a when I reconfigured the host computer.

By: Tony Town

Tony Town — Wed, 20 Jan 2010 17:06:49 +0000

Your instructions worked fine for me when I had a single-disk shared drive. I’ve now put the files I want to share on a RAID-1 array. I have no problem accessing this on the host computer and the share shows up when I run smbclient -L //,servername> -U . However, when I run sudo mount -a, I get the following error on the client PCs:-
mount error(13): Permission denied
Refer to the mount.cifs(8) manual page (e.g. man mount.cifs)
Does sharing work on RAID arrays?

By: JOHN FISK

JOHN FISK — Tue, 19 Jan 2010 18:47:04 +0000

Will this work with 9.10 ?

By: Marcus B

Marcus B — Thu, 07 Jan 2010 21:40:26 +0000

Hey, great!!! But… When i try to access my drive, the size of the drive is only 80 mb? but the real size is 1TB, and if i go the full adress to the drive (smb://freenas/share) the drive is OK… What to do?!

By: shrek

shrek — Thu, 31 Dec 2009 21:01:45 +0000

The smb folder will show on our ubuntu desktop if mounted under /media/.
If you you would like to keep your desktop clean and don’t want to leave the SMB folder there, please mount it at /mnt/
sudo mkdir /mnt/Storage

//192.168.0.10/Storage /mnt/Storage cifs auto,iocharset=utf8,uid=matt,gid=users,credentials=/root/.cifscredentials,file_mode=0775,dir_mode=0775 0 0

By: Jonathon

Jonathon — Wed, 26 Aug 2009 07:54:58 +0000

Thanks for a great article! Kudos man… not even the official Ubuntu wiki page on SMB shares worked for me. Yours worked perfectly the first time, and it was much easier to follow. Thanks again for making this so simple. (2 year old article, and it still works. Nice.)

By: Matt

Matt — Mon, 22 Jun 2009 15:15:32 +0000

Before 7.04 I did experience the shutdown hangs like you have. However, when I installed 7.04 and figured out this method I didn’t have that issue anymore.

After 7.04 I changed my desktop over to Mac OS x86, so I haven’t attempted this on any version of Ubuntu since. If I have some spare time I’ll see about setting up a virtual machine with 9.04 and see if I have the same issues as you.

I do remember that before this method worked for me there used to be a problem where in the Ubuntu boot process it would attempt to mount the drives before starting up the network. Obviously this wouldn’t work. In that setup I had created a startup script and shutdown script to mount and unmount the drives. If you can find any information on this method it might be a better route on 9.04 if my method isn’t working.

By: Peter Freeman

Peter Freeman — Mon, 15 Jun 2009 19:34:54 +0000

Hi Matt,

I have solved part of the problem. I now have the ability to unmount them by right-clicking on the desktop icon and choosing “Unmount Volume” from the pop-up menu. I did this by adding the “users” option

BEFORE

//server/sharename /media/sharename cifs auto,iocharset=utf8,uid=username,gid=users,credentials=/root/.cifscredentials,file_mode=0775,dir_mode=0775 0 0

AFTER

//server/sharename /media/sharename cifs users,auto,iocharset=utf8,uid=username,gid=users,credentials=/root/.cifscredentials,file_mode=0775,dir_mode=0775 0 0

If I manually unmount them before shutdown, my machines shutdown normally, if I leave them up, I get the errors on a black screen at the end of the shutdown process as noted above.

So it now seems that although any user can unmount them manually, the shutdown processes is unable to unmount.

Thanks for your help on this one.

Peter