{"id":3779,"date":"2014-08-11T14:10:09","date_gmt":"2014-08-11T14:10:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/?p=3779"},"modified":"2024-04-22T10:01:23","modified_gmt":"2024-04-22T10:01:23","slug":"map-network-drive-onto-ubuntu-14-04","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/2014\/08\/map-network-drive-onto-ubuntu-14-04\/","title":{"rendered":"How To Map A Network Drive Onto Ubuntu 14.04 Permanently"},"content":{"rendered":"

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This simple tutorial shows you how to map a network drive, Windows share as example, onto Ubuntu 14.04 LTS with read and write permission permanently.<\/p>\n

UPDATE-2024: This tutorial is outdated, and no longer works in current Ubuntu releases!!<\/b><\/p>\n

All things will be done in a terminal window. Not familiar with Linux command? Don’t be afraid, just paste the command into terminal and hit enter to run one by one. There will be a few pictures to make things more clear.<\/p>\n

Preparation:<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

There are a few preliminary actions we need to do before we can start mounting using cifs.<\/p>\n

1. Press Ctrl+Alt+T<\/b> on keyboard to open the terminal. Paste the command below and run to create a mount point, you can replace ‘Ji-share’ to what you want.<\/p>\n

sudo mkdir \/media\/Ji-share<\/pre>\n
\"Create<\/a><\/p>\n
2. Install cifs-utils<\/code>, which provides support for cross-platform file sharing with Microsoft Windows, OS X and other Unix systems.<\/p>\n
Install it from Ubuntu Software Center, or via below command:<\/p>\n
sudo apt-get install cifs-utils<\/pre>\n
3. Edit the \/etc\/nsswitch.conf:<\/p>\n
sudo gedit \/etc\/nsswitch.conf<\/pre>\n
Find the line looks like:<\/p>\n
hosts: files mdns4_minimal [NOTFOUND=return] dns<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
change it into:<\/p>\n
hosts: files mdns4_minimal [NOTFOUND=return] wins<\/span> dns<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
\"Ubuntu<\/a><\/p>\n
4. Run below command so that your Ubuntu can resolve Windows computer name on a DHCP network.<\/p>\n
sudo apt-get install libnss-winbind winbind<\/pre>\n
Reboot Ubuntu, or restart your network.<\/p>\n
Mount (map) network drive:<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n
Now edit the fstab file to mount network share on start up.<\/p>\n
1. Make a backup by running the command below:<\/p>\n
sudo cp \/etc\/fstab \/etc\/fstab_old<\/pre>\n
If you need to restore your backup, run:<\/p>\n
sudo mv \/etc\/fstab_old \/etc\/fstab<\/pre>\n
2. Create a credentials file via:<\/p>\n
gedit ~\/.smbcredentials<\/pre>\n
insert the username and password for accessing the remote share. Replace “Ji” & “741852963” with yours<\/span> and save the file.<\/p>\n
username=Ji
\npassword=741852963<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
\"create-credentials\"<\/a><\/p>\n
3. Run command to get your gid and uid. Replace handbook<\/span> with your user name.<\/p>\n
id handbook<\/span><\/pre>\n
\"Get<\/a><\/p>\n
4. Now edit the fstab by running the command:<\/p>\n
sudo gedit \/etc\/fstab<\/pre>\n
Add below line (one line) to the end and save it. REPLACE WORDS IN RED!<\/p>\n
\/\/192.168.1.5\/share<\/span> \/media\/Ji-share<\/span> cifs credentials=\/home\/handbook<\/span>\/.smbcredentials,iocharset=utf8,gid=1000<\/span>,uid=1000<\/span>,file_mode=0777,dir_mode=0777 0 0<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
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Finally run sudo mount -a<\/b> in terminal and you’ll get the network share mapped in Unity Launcher and Nautilus file browser:<\/p>\n
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This simple tutorial shows you how to map a network drive, Windows share as example, onto Ubuntu 14.04 LTS with read and write permission permanently. UPDATE-2024: This tutorial is outdated, and no longer works in current Ubuntu releases!! All things will be done in a terminal window. Not familiar with Linux command? Don’t be afraid, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[1132,855],"class_list":["post-3779","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-howtos","tag-map-a-network-drive","tag-ubuntu-14-04"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3779","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3779"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3779\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3779"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3779"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3779"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}