Mounting Shares to local folders

[Haggis Veteran]

hi guys

 

i have a server running in a VM on 192.168.0.64 or dns hostname is ubuntu

 

I want to mount it locally in a folder

 

so i can go to /home/haggis/mountedshare and deal with the files there

 

i am struggling on getting it mounted like that

 

its created using Samba

[Brian M. Veteran]

You're probably looking for the smbmount command (or similar).

 

Something like:

 

smbmount //ubuntu/sharename /home/haggis/mountedshare -o username=user,password=pass,rw

Although, smbmount is pretty old now. Another (probably better) way to do it would be:

mount -t cifs //ubuntu/sharename /home/haggis/mountedshare -o rw

Before doing this, you'll want to install the cifs-utils package.

You can add it to fstab with no auto and then just issue a mount command when you want to mount it - but there's no point having an auto mount if it's in a VM since the share won't be available at boot.

[Haggis Veteran]

yep agreed

 

thanks for this

 

what i am doing is playing about with server in a VM as i am ordering a N54L this month so i wanted to at least have an idea of what i was doing lol

 

I dont intend to install a gui so this will be my first CLI only system

 

So far i have managed to setup:-

 

shares

SSH 

Web Server

Dropbox

DNS

Plex

 

I am using Webmin to help me with some stuff

 

I think i will also use a live usb to partition the disks as i am not comfortable with doing that on cli

[Brian M. Veteran]

Are you installing debian/ubuntu/another debian derivative?

Practice in a VM with the text based installer - it's really not that bad as long as you read the options carefully. During the text based install, you should have the option to install SSH from the start (it's the only thing I choose - I prefer to install everything else myself manually so I know exactly what's installed).

What disk setup are you using? The text based installer isn't too complicated, unless you're doing software raid, in which case there are some very good tutorials out there (and you can practice by installing it to a virtual machine with multiple virtual hdds attached).

[]SK[]

Does the hostname resolve on the source computer?

[Haggis Veteran]

oohhh i never thought about adding extra hard drives to the VM lol

 

Its Ubuntu Server i am installing just purely for ease of use and lots of online documentation

 

I got through the installer fine (i will admit i just made it use the full disk for the OS as i wont be using that drive for anything else but that)

 

I will add more drives to another VM and play with that

Does the hostname resolve on the source computer?

 

I can type ubuntu into my laptop and it picks up the webserver for example on that machine

 

connecting to webmin is just https://ubuntu:1000

[Haggis Veteran]

ok i mounted the folder which was fine

 

 

i created a folder in that share on my local machine not the server

 

the folder created fine

 

but i dont have permission to create anything in that lol

 

when i right click and go to properties and then permission its greyed out under root

[Haggis Veteran]

ok i got it

 

i forgot to add the details to smb.conf

[<folder_name>]
path = /home/<user_name>/<folder_name>
available = yes
valid users = <user_name>
read only = no
browseable = yes
public = yes
writable = yes

[Haggis Veteran]

ok to allow me to let all users write to the folder i had to do

 

chown nobody:nogroup -R /path/to/folder

 

is this safe?

[Haggis Veteran]

Anyone any idea :)

[Brian M. Veteran]

Anyone any idea :)

 

I don't like having nobody/nogroup etc.

 

Personally, I have my shares owned by root:fileshareusers. Any user who can access the shares is a member of the fileshareusers group. Then I set permissions to be 760. If you're not in the fileshareusers group, you don't have access - i.e. root: rwx %fileshareusers: rw, world, no access.

 

I do this for pretty much everything. People who need access to bind/apache etc are in the serviceusers group, and have sudo access to those controls only. People who need ssh access are in the sshusers group, people who need access to virtualbox are in the vboxusers group, etc, etc, etc.

[Haggis Veteran]

yeah but i am not sure how to do that

 

so lets say i have my son, my wife and my daughter

 

they are

 

Alex with password of password1 (Linux)

Lynette with password of password2 (Windows)

Lucy with password of password3 (Android)

 

Do i just setup users matching these details?

 

so when they try and access my photos folder for example

 

Alex would just then type in Alex and password1?

 

 

sorry i may be making this more complex than it is

 

 

also i would have security set to user in the smb.conf

 

i have been following this guide

 

https://help.ubuntu.com/lts/serverguide/samba-fileserver.html

[Haggis Veteran]

I am stcuk again

 

i rebuilt using Debian this time

 

when trying to mount the folders i get

mount error(13): Permission denied
Refer to the mount.cifs(8) manual page (e.g. man mount.cifs)