How Do I Map a Drive Network Share Using the Linux Terminal?
Still Getting Used to Linux, and the Gui Is Great. I Have Ubuntu 10 and I Can Go to Network and See the Windows Network. Then Double Clicking This Gets Me to...
Still getting used to Linux, and the GUI is great. I have Ubuntu 10 and I can go to Network and see the Windows network. Then double clicking this gets me to the drives that are shared. Then when I go back to the terminal and use:
cd ~/.gvfs
I can see the mapped drives. But it would be nice if I could this without all the mouse clicking. So how do I map network drives in the terminal, something akin to net use for Windows.
EDIT: Not sure what happened, but this is what I did to get it to work. I created the directory for the share in /media and then ran:
sudo mount -t cifs -o username=nicorellius //server/share/ /media/share
and it said command couldn't be found. So i thought I would go ahead and use smbfs so I ran:
sudo apt-get install smbfs
I tried the command suggested with smbfs instead of cifs and that didn't work either. So I tried again and then the next time I ran:
sudo mount -t cifs -o username=nicorellius //server/share/ /media/share
it worked and I could navigate to the directory with cd.
2 Answers
Create a directory on your machine to use as a mount point for the share:
sudo mkdir /media/yoursharename
Then use the mount command to map a Windows share to the mount point you just created:
sudo mount -t cifs -o username=nicorellius //server/sharename /media/yoursharename
You should now be to access the share from your /media/yoursharename mount point.
gvfs-mount can be used to mount filesystems under ~/.gvfs in the same manner as Gnome applications.
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