Updated: 2022-11-05

This is only relevant to my personal reference at work.

The address for drive F and N is as follow:

To check the path where the folders are mounted, in Windows run command net use in terminal with cmd or PowerShell.

Install

Install CIFS utilities package.

  sudo apt update
  sudo apt install cifs-utils autofs

Mount manually

Basically you can mount the drive every time you want to access it directly with the command below but this has to be done every time you login to you machine.

sudo mkdir /mnt/F
sudo mount -t cifs -o username=YourWindowsUserName,password=YourWindowsPassword //fhi.no/Felles /mnt/F

You can run df -h to verify that mounting windows share folder in Linux was successful.

Credential

To ensure that your username and password secure, use credential file for example /etc/cifs-credentials with:

  username=user
  password=password

Then make it unreadable to others with

  sudo chown root: /etc/cifs-credentials
  sudo chmod 600 /etc/cifs-credentials

Then to use the credentials run:

  sudo mount -t cifs -o credentials=/etc/cifs-credentials,file_mode=0777,dir_mode=0777 ://fhi.no/fil/styrt

Read more here

Auto mount

Alternatively you can automount the drive. Here I use fstad. Edit file fstab

sudo vim /etc/fstab

Then add the following line to the file:

//fhi.no/fil/felles /mnt/F cifs credentials=/etc/cifs-credentials,file_mode=0755,dir_mode=0755 0 0
//fhi.no/fil/fil/styrt /mnt/N cifs credentials=/etc/cifs-credentials,file_mode=0755,dir_mode=0755 0 0
//fhi.no/home/brukere_Y\$//YBKA /mnt/H cifs credentials=/etc/cifs-credentials,file_mode=0755,dir_mode=0755 0 0

Then run the command to mount all the entries in /etc/fstab

sudo mount -a

To unmount any of the folder, eg. /mnt/F. The second command is used if the first command fails. The option -l is equal to --lazy. The command is umount and not unmount ie. without n in UN.

sudo umount /mnt/F
sudo umount -t cifs -l /mnt/F

This guide is copied from here.

Other option to mount

To use autofs to automount instead of fstad. If you wonder the different between these methods then you can read here. To start with autofs create file auto.cifs in directory /etc/

  F -fstype=cifs,rw,credential=/etc/cifs-credentials,uid=1000,iocharset=utf8 ://fhi.no/Felles
  N -fstype=cifs,rw,credential=/etc/cifs-credentials,uid=1000,iocharset=utf8 ://fhi.no/fil/styrt
  H -fstype=cifs,rw,credential=/etc/cifs-credentials,uid=1000,iocharset=utf8 ://fhi.no/home/Brukere_Y\$/MYUSERNAME

NB! Look at dealing with special symbol such as folder name ie. Brukere_Y$ which should be written as Brukere_Y\$. If these settings don’t work for you, try the settings below

  N -fstype=cifs,rw,username=<your-username>,password=<your-password>,vers=3.0,uid=1000,file_mode=0777,dir_mode=0777,users ://fhi.no/fil/styrt
  F -fstype=cifs,rw,username=<your-username>,password=<your-password>,vers=3.0,uid=1000,file_mode=0777,dir_mode=0777,users ://fhi.no/felles

To understand how mount settings is done can be referred from this website on AUTOFS. Basically the structure is

mount-point map-name options

The primary configuration file for the automounter is /etc/auto.master, also referred to as the master map which may be changed accordingly. Open auto.master file and mounting directory to /mnt.

  /mnt /etc/auto.cifs

Execute

To run autofs the execute these command in terminal:

  sudo systemctl enable autofs
  sudo systemctl start autofs

Other options includes restart or stop. To check if you have access to directory F and N run this in terminal:

  cd ~ && cd /mnt/F && ls

Access to folders

Since it’s defined in the file /etc/auto.master that mounting will be in /mnt to access the folders is done with:

  cd /mnt/N
  cd /mnt/F

SSH

Install SSH to be able to access the mounted drive from other machine.

sudo apt update
sudo apt install openssh-server

If port 22 SSH in firewall not enable, then enable it by

sudo ufw allow 22

To check if SSH is running

sudo systemctl status ssh

You can actively initiate SSH if it’s not already running or stop SSH

sudo systemctl start ssh
sudo systemctl stop ssh

Copy file

To copy files to remote machine

scp FilePathWindows username@UbuntuIP:UbuntuPath

For example scp C:/Docs/MyData.csv ybk@ipAddress:/home/usr/. Wildcard pattern with * could also be used. You can also read here.

OneDrive

Currently, I use this guide to mount OneDrive https://itslinuxfoss.com/install-use-onedrive-ubuntu-22-04/ but I don’t use Insync since it require admin. Previously I used this guide https://abraunegg.github.io/. The guide how to use is available here in USAGE.

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