Feature #374
Updated by Daniel Curtis about 10 years ago
A very nice tool to easily mount your samba shares in your home folder is SMBNetFSInstall smbnetfs. With this tool you can access your samba shares by nearly all applications simply through a mount point in your home. h2. How to use SMBnetFS # Install the package through your package manager <pre> sudo apt-get install smbnetfs </pre> # Copy standard configuration <pre> cp /etc/smbnetfs.conf ~/.smb/smbnetfs.conf copy standard configuration </pre> # Copy samba configuration <pre> cp /etc/samba/smb.conf ~/.smb/smb.conf </pre> # Make the sambashare directory or any other name for the mount point <pre> mkdir ~/sambashare </pre> # Mount the shares to the mountpoint <pre> smbnetfs ~/sambashare </pre> Unfortunately there is only little documentation available. See man smbnetfs for options and go through the FAQ file in /usr/share/doc/smbnetfs. h2. Resources http://askubuntu.com/questions/24348/how-do-i-mount-samba-share-as-non-root-user