Mount temporarily
sudo mount.cifs //192.168.1.9/invoice -o username=xxx /mnt/
Mount permanently (surive reboot)
Install cifs
sudo apt-get install cifs-utils
Create a mount directory
sudo mkdir /media/windowsshare
Create a file to store your fileserver credential
sudo nano ~/.smbcredentials
Your file name .smbcredentials must contain the following.
username=administrator@domain.com
password=admin_password
Change file permission to proect your admin credential.
chmod 600 ~/.smbcredentials
Edit your /etc/fstab and add the following line
#Mount
//192.168.1.200/writable /media/windowsshare cifs credentials=/home/kim/.smbcredentials,iocharset=utf8,sec=ntlm 0 0
#If you get error use below
//192.168.1.200/writable /media/windowsshare cifs credentials=/home/kim/.smbcredentials,iocharset=utf8,sec=ntlm 0 0 noserverino
You may take below shortcut but it’s not recommended as your login ID and password is exposed.
//192.168.1.200/writable /media/windowsshare cifs username=admin,password=password,iocharset=utf8,sec=ntlm 0 0
You may use the following for unprotected shared folder
//192.168.1.200/writable /media/windowsshare cifs guest,uid=1000,iocharset=utf8 0 0
Finally test your mount. Restart your server to see if it mounts automatically.
sudo mount -a
To unmount network folder
sudo umount /media/windowsshare/
iocharset=utf8 allows access to files with names in non-English languages
If there is any space in the server path, you need to replace it by \040, for example //ServerName/My\040Documents