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(Replace username with your own WUR account name, and localuser with the account you have locally) | (Replace username with your own WUR account name, and localuser with the account you have locally) |
Revision as of 14:37, 26 January 2018
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Mounting Home Directories - CIFS
As WUR has moved to a new home directory storage method, the path to finding it is much simpler:
Write yourself an /etc/fstab entry that looks like this:
//WURNET.NL/Homes/username /mnt/mdrive cifs noauto,user,username=username,domain=wur,uid=localuser,gid=localuser 0 0
(Replace username with your own WUR account name, and localuser with the account you have locally)
Now you can simply:
mount /mnt/mdrive
And after entering your password, you have access to your M drive share.
Caveats
This may occasionally not work on the first try, as the hostname WURNET.NL points to multiple machines. You may need to do this repeatedly to get a stable connection.
The easiest way to gather information about available CIFS shares is using smbclient. On Ubuntu, you need the pacakge 'smbclient' to provide this.
Usage:
smbclient -L <server> -U username
This will show you all the mounts available to you on that machine.
To test the mount:
sudo mount //server/share -ousername=username,domain=wur /tmp/smb
This will hold until you unmount it.
Automatically mounting at boot (/etc/fstab)
The above example will only mount when called. You want it to mount on boot. However, a simple issue is present - you must authenticate to mount. Thus, you need to have some credential stash. Modify the options to this:
//WURNET.NL/Homes/username /mnt/mdrive cifs credentials=/home/localuser/.smbpassword,user,username=username,domain=wur,uid=localuser,gid=localuser 0 0
Then you can make the credential file. Set it 600 so that only you or root may read or write.
cd ~
echo username=username > .smbpassword
echo password=mypassword >> .smbpassword
chmod 600 .smbpassword
What is the DFS-Root
DFS is Microsoft's Distributed File System. The purpose of a distributed file system is that the user can access files without knowing on which server the files are locates. The root of a distributed files system is called the DFS-Root. In the DFS-Root are virtual directories which are actual 'links' to shares on some servers.
Most modern CIFS implementations are able to handle DFS properly, thus a config like:
//scomp0863/DFS-Root /mnt/wdrive cifs noauto,user,username=username,domain=wur 0 0
Should work.