Samba

  • In the gnome desktop environment, you can mount an smb/cifs server by going to the Places menu, selecting Connect to Server, and the service type would be Windows share.
  • For a one-time connection, press Ctrl+L in a file browser, and enter the url as smb://server.bu.edu/share,
    • (e.g. smb://engna1.bu.edu/Users/m/y/myname, with ‘/m/y/’ being the 1st 2 letters of myname).
    • If you have a valid kerberos ticket, you won’t need to enter a username or password
      /!\\ Note, there is a bug in Unubtu 8.04 where gnome will prompt you for a password even though you have a valid kerberos ticket. http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=524498
  • In Ubuntu 9.10 the Connect to Server menu option can be found in the File menu

Command Line Mount

  1. Create directory /mnt/X (or whichever is desired)
  2. Run the following command with appropriate substitutions:
sudo mount -t smbfs -o uid=myname,username=myname,file_mode=0644,dir_mode=0755 //engna1.bu.edu/Users/m/y/myname /mnt/X