Today we are going to learn how to mount network shares using Linux. There are two ways to do this, either manually or using the fstab file, and we shall cover both. For this tutorial we will use the following:
Network share at 192.168.1.3/mnt/MyDisk1 which is mounted on a FreeNAS system (nfs)
Network share at 192.168.1.2/share which is on a Linux Mint 10 server (samba)
Both shares will be accessed from a Asus Eeepc 701 running Linux Mint 11.
Manually
Lets take the FreeNAS nfs share first. First thing to do is install the nfs package nfs-common. Open up a terminal and type:
sudo apt-get install nfs-common
Enter your password when required. Next thing type:
mount 192.168.1.3:/mnt/MyDisk1 /media/dev/MyDisk1
where:
192.168.1.3 is the ip address of the system where the share is mounted
/media/dev/MyDisk1 is the mount point where you want the share to be mounted
Now lets take a look at the Linux Mint 10 samba share. Again we need to install the required samba packages so open up a terminal and type:
sudo apt-get install samba
Next type:
mount -t cifs //192.168.1.2/share /mnt -o username=user,password=pass
where:
user and pass are your login details
/mnt is the mount point on the local system
Using FStab
In a terminal type:
sudo nano /etc/fstab
Add one of the following lines to the file depending on if you are using samba or nfs.
192.168.1.3:/mnt/MyDisk1 /media/dev/MyDisk1 nfs hard,intr 0 0 (NFS)
//192.168.1.2/share /media/dev2/Share cifs username=user,password=pass,user,rw,noatime 0 0 (SAMBA)
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Glad you like the tutorial. Personally I would use samba for sharing between Linux and Windows clients and NFS for Linux clients only. You can share files using samba between Linux clients but NFS is faster.
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