Network drives without samba

Samba is useful but many programs are not able to handle SMB protocol (eg notepadqq, geany, atom etc).

A more compatible way to use network drives is to map them with mount_cifs to a local path. Then all programs will be able to handle files from the network drives.

If you want to map a network drive for the current session then just type:

mount.cifs "//computer/share" /mnt -o user=username

If you want to have the drives mapped after each reboot then:

  1. chmod +s /sbin/mount.cifs
  2. chmod +s /sbin/umount.cifs
  3. chmod 600 /etc/fstab

Now for each share do the following:

  1. mkdir localpath
  2. vim /etc/fstab
  3. add the following line:

//computer/share /localpath cifs user=sambausername,pass=sambapassword,rw,users 0 0

And you are ready.


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