How to mounting a Windows shared folder with samba?

I'm following a lot of tutorials but nothings work with me.

So my question is what I need to have samba services to mount and windows shared folder?

My last trying is this:

kevin@AnayaNet:~$ smbtree
Enter kevin's password:
CIBERBYTE \\PC01 \\PC01\Documentos c \\PC01\Nueva carpeta \\PC01\C \\PC01\IPC$ IPC remota

Then I run this command:

kevin@AnayaNet:~$ sudo mount -t smbfs -o user=administrador,password=Bug.$%10 //PC01/Documentos Desktop/Shared_PC01/

And what I got was this:

mount error: could not resolve address for PC01: Unknown error

Thanks in advanced Linux people.

2 Answers

It seems that the ip address resolution failed.

you need change PC01 to the ip address of machine on which the samba server runs.

if you want a gui client for samba, you can try nautilus (the default file manager for ubuntu). nautilus supports a variety of remote services, e.g. smb, afp, sftp, ssh, davs, dav, ftp.

open "Connect to Server" dialog from nautilus menu. and type the server address, e.g. smb://10.0.0.6 (or smb://shared,if you have set up your hosts file or dns server)

I would recommend trying out cifs-utils if you're having trouble mounting a Windows Shared Folder/Drive

sudo apt-get install cifs-utils

Then, get to know your host computer's IP adress. Do this on the host PC's terminal.

Windows:

ipconfig

Linux:

ifconfig [ADAPTER, Eg. eth0]

Then, create a folder where you want to mount it. In this example, I'm mounting in my Home. My username is Anna, but yours will be different.

cd /home/Anna
mkdir Windows-Share

Then, mount the samba share to the folder.`

mount.cifs //IPADRESS/FOLDERNAME /home/Anna/Windows-Share -o username= USERNAME YOU SET FOR YOUR SHARE

Correct me if I'm on the wrong path/topic.

Sincerely, Anna

I'm a newbie to helping people.