Ubuntu: Mount/Unmount network share

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🔗 Mount and Unmount a Network Share (SMB)

📋 Prerequisite:

On most Linux distributions, you need to install the cifs-utils package to mount SMB (Windows) shares:

sudo apt update
sudo apt install cifs-utils

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🔧 Manually Mounting a Share

1. Create a mount point (if it doesn’t already exist):

sudo mkdir -p /mnt/example

2. Mount the SMB share (replace with your actual server and credentials):

sudo mount -t cifs //server-ip-or-hostname/share-name /mnt/example -o username=yourusername,password=yourpassword

Tip: For better security, use a credentials file instead of putting the username and password directly in the command.

3. Unmount the share:

sudo umount /mnt/example

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⚙️ Automatically Mount at Boot

To mount the share automatically on system startup, add it to the /etc/fstab file:

1. Edit /etc/fstab:

sudo nano /etc/fstab

2. Add the following line to the bottom (customize with your values):

# Mount SMB share at boot
//server-ip-or-hostname/share-name /mnt/example cifs credentials=/home/youruser/.smbcredentials,iocharset=utf8,uid=1000,gid=1000,file_mode=0777,dir_mode=0777 0 0

Create a .smbcredentials file in your home directory with:

username=yourusername
password=yourpassword

And secure it:

chmod 600 ~/.smbcredentials

3. Reload fstab to test it:

sudo mount -a

If there are no errors, the share should now be mounted and will automatically mount at boot.

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