{"id":357,"date":"2019-11-07T15:55:28","date_gmt":"2019-11-07T20:55:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/engit\/?page_id=357"},"modified":"2019-11-12T17:05:05","modified_gmt":"2019-11-12T22:05:05","slug":"ubuntuatbu-samba","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/engit\/knowledge-base\/linux\/ubuntuatbu-samba\/","title":{"rendered":"Samba"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<ul>\n<li>In the gnome desktop environment, you can mount an smb\/cifs server by going to the <strong>Places<\/strong> menu, selecting <strong>Connect to Server<\/strong>, and the service type would be <strong>Windows share<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<li>For a one-time connection, press Ctrl+L in a file browser, and enter the url as <strong>smb:\/\/server.bu.edu\/share<\/strong>,\n<ul>\n<li style=\"list-style-type: none;\">(e.g. <tt class=\"backtick\">smb:\/\/engna1.bu.edu\/Users\/m\/y\/myname<\/tt>, with &#8216;\/m\/y\/&#8217; being the 1st 2 letters of myname).<\/li>\n<li style=\"list-style-type: none;\">If you have a valid kerberos ticket, you won&#8217;t need to enter a username or password<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" alt=\"\/!\\\\\" height=\"16\" src=\"\/engit\/files\/2019\/08\/alert.png\" width=\"16\" \/> 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. <a class=\"http\" href=\"http:\/\/bugzilla.gnome.org\/show_bug.cgi?id=524498\">http:\/\/bugzilla.gnome.org\/show_bug.cgi?id=524498<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>In Ubuntu 9.10 the <strong>Connect to Server<\/strong> menu option can be found in the <strong>File<\/strong> menu<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h1 id=\"CommandLineMount\">Command Line Mount<\/h1>\n<ol type=\"1\">\n<li>Create directory \/mnt\/X (or whichever is desired)<\/li>\n<li>Run the following command with appropriate substitutions:<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<pre class=\"darkSnippet\">sudo mount -t smbfs -o uid=myname,username=myname,file_mode=0644,dir_mode=0755 \/\/engna1.bu.edu\/Users\/m\/y\/myname \/mnt\/X<\/pre>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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 &#8216;\/m\/y\/&#8217; being the 1st 2 letters of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16541,"featured_media":0,"parent":868,"menu_order":16,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/engit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/357"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/engit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/engit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/engit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/16541"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/engit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=357"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/engit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/357\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":806,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/engit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/357\/revisions\/806"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/engit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/868"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/engit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=357"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}