Share a local folder over LAN with CIFS

I have a folder (/share, which contains other subfolders and files) which I want it to be shared over my LAN. I've read out there that CIFS (replacing Samba) is the file system adequate to do such a task.

So, what I do is the following:

sudo mount -t cifs -o guest.rw //192.168.1.1/shared_folder /share

(do not pay attention to the options)

After executing the command, the following messages are shown:

Retrying with upper case share name

mount error(6): No such device or address

Refer to the mount.cifs(8) manual page (e.g. man mount.cifs)

I've read the man pages and I don't get what the problem is... What am I doing wrong? Perhaps am I not specifying the correct addresses?

After that, I will setup my fstab, but that is not a problem.

Thanks for your dedication.

1 Answer

On the server (sharing) side : right click on folder you want to share (e.g Documents) then click properties :

Enable sharing option (nautilus will download and install samba for you). You may also need to check access for guests.

On the client side :

sudo apt-get install cifs-utils

and mount it (as guest) :

sudo mount -t cifs -o guest //sharing_machine_ip/Documents /mountpoint

you can also add some other options like user and password:

sudo mount -t cifs -o username=your_username,password=your_password //sharing_machine_ip/Documents /mountpoint

If you want this to automount (as guest - indicates you don't need a password to access the share) at startup you can add to the end of /etc/fstab:

//sharing_machine_ip/Documents /your_mountpoint cifs guest 0 0

or with password protected share:

//sharing_machine_ip/Documents /your_mountpoint cifs username=your_username,password=your_password 0 0