[ale] Mount a remote NTFS partition

[Michael Trausch]

If you're using GNOME, you have no need to use the CLI at all; GNOME
(particularly modern GNOME) has a VFS (virtual filesystem) that you
can use to browse and mount such shares, and you can also access those
shares from non-GNOME programs because they are exposed as mount
points in ~/.gvfs/ by name.

However, if your goal is to present the shared drive as a system-wide
mountpoint, you'll need to have the mount.cifs helper program
installed (check with your distribution's package manager for that; it
might or might not come with Samba itself), and then you need to mount
it with a command along the lines of:

  mount //NAME_OR_IP/SHARE_NAME -t cifs -o ${OPTIONS} /path/to/mountpoint

You'll need to read up on what options are required for the CIFS mount
module, if you require the ability to specify a username or password
(or both) for the share.

On Wed, Jan 26, 2011 at 1:32 PM, Richard Faulkner <rfaulkner at 34thprs.org> wrote:
> This is what I expect will be an elementary exercise for most of you but
> keep in mind I'm starting to dig into the CLI this is new to me...
>
> I have a pair of machines (networked) in my LAN, one running Ubuntu 9.10
> (w/Samba) and sharing with a M$ XP box with the following shares:
>
> D$
> Production
>
> The name of the M$ box is \\Studio and the name of the partition
> administratively shared as "d$" is "Storage".
>
> I have created a folder in Linux at "\media\D" to act as a mount point for
> the Storage drive "d$" share in XP AND I can browse to and from each machine
> successfully.  My only problem is that I don't have the proper syntax to
> mount d$ to /media/D in Ubuntu.  Samba is installed and running fine...I can
> query and "see" \\Studio\d$ and/or \\Studio\Production without issue..
>
> Any learned *NIX insight to aid this noob convert from M$?