The Crane Has Landed

If you want to get one Ubuntu box talking to another and have the shares mounted, then this is what you do.

Say that Box1 has a Downloads folder that you’d like to have available on Box2. Follow these steps:

1. On Box2, apt-get install smbfs
2. On Box2, create a mount point (e.g. /media/Downloads) and edit /etc/fstab.
3. Add the line //Box1/Downloads /media/Downloads smbfs credentials=/etc/samba/.cred-file,gid=users,dmask=775,uid=USERNAME 0 0
4. Create /etc/samba/.cred-file and add the lines:

   username=USERNAME
password=PASSWORD

   obviously replacing with the correct values.

5. sudo mount -a

You should be sorted.