How can I add shared drives to Raspberry PI 3?

Question

So I have been given this LINK: \\HDD01101円_Presentaion06円_New_1 .

I know this link is from a network shared drive here at my job.

As a side project, I've been asked to make this link available to our Raspberry Pi(that runs on Raspbian) on our wall for some presentation to run there. I have read that samba should be able to do just what I need but I don't really know how to implement it.

So how can I make this link available there all the time ? What options do I have ?

• rob: try here raspberrypi.stackexchange.com/questions/40974/…

Answer 1

Create a mountpoint for your share:

sudo mkdir /media/winshare
sudo chown pi:pi /media/winshare

Create a smbcred file:

nano /home/pi/.smbcred

Write the following into it (replace username and password) :

username=username
password=paswword

Save (CTRL-O) and exit (CTRL-X).

The dot at the beginning of the filename indicates a hidden file. Hidden files can be shown with

 ls -la 

Finally add following line to /etc/fstab:

//HDD011/01_Presentaion/06_New_1 /media/winshare cifs x-systemd.automount,users,credentials=/home/pi/.smbcred 0 0

/media/winshare will appear as regular folder and you can now read and write to it.

• Ingo: You should set chmod 600 /home/pi/.smbcred. Don't know, but network filesystem cifs is available by default?
• Johan: Thanks you for the answer. When I add the line to /etc/fstab I get this error : -bash: //HDD011/01_Presentaion/06_New_1: No such file or directory'

Answer 2

If you don't want the changes to be permanent you can use

sudo mount -t cifs //HDD011/01_Presentaion/06_New_1 /media/winshare -o username=share_username,iocharset=utf8,file_mode=0777,dir_mode=0777

where share_username is the username that you have to use to sign in.