Mounting samba share in using fstab

Question

I tried to mount a samba share from the local network to a folder in my PC. I added the following line in fstab

sudo mount -t cifs //192.168.1.5/my/folder/ /home/mounts/localmount/

But when I do sudo mount -a, it gives the following error:-

[mntent]: line 13 in /etc/fstab is bad

Can anyone tell me what I did wrong? I'm on Ubuntu 12.10, so sudo smbmount //hostname/sharename ~/mounts/sharename -o user=username wont work [source]

Solution

The entry in fstab is not a command; don't include the sudo mount portion.

Instead, make the line look something like

//192.168.1.5/my/folder /home/mounts/localmount cifs rw

A similar thread over at UbuntuForums has more good information about further options, if you need login credentials, special encoding, or other permissions settings.

Comments

[Sparky]

Thanks :) I added the following line and it worked //192.168.1.5/my/folder /home/mounts/localmount cifs user=admin,password=123,rw,iocharset=utf8,uid=1000,gid=1000 0 0