To connect to a samba shared drive on my network, I can use nautilus, press ctrl+l and type in smb://192.168.0.x, enter my credentials and am able to connect and browse the drive.
How can I do the same thing from the command line?
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Use the mount command sudo mount -t cifs //192.168.0.x/<Share> /path/to/mount -o username=myuser,password=mypass
/path/to/mount is an existing directory.
You may need to install cifs-utils but I think its included with Ubuntu desktop.
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thanks for the info -- so behind the scenes, nautilus is mounting the drive. So when nautilus does this, it's specifying /path/to/mount in ~/.gvfs? – zako42 Mar 31 '14 at 19:45
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I am not sure at all that nautilus uses cifs. Otherwise the workaround to this bug (fixed now) would have not worked: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gvfs/+bug/1075923 – Rmano Mar 31 '14 at 19:50