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Samba / CIFS

Linux Client

Install dependencies 

apt-get install cifs-utils samba-common

or

apt install cifs-utils psmisc

Linux Server

Install dependencies 

apt install samba

UTF-8

It is recommended to mount shares with iocharset=utf8.

For that you probably need to apt install linux-modules-extra-$(unane -r).

Don’t forget to reboot before installing the linux-modules-extra or type the correct uname manually.

Mount temporariy 

mount -t cifs //192.0.2.17/SharedFiles /mnt/smb_share

Mount with credentials

Put them somewhere safe, for example /root/.smb.

user=linux-client
password=12345678
domain=company.com

FSTAB

Use \040 for a space.

//server/share         /mnt/here           cifs    uid=999,gid=1001,credentials=/root/.smb,iocharset=utf8,vers=2.1         0 0

Server

Systemd service called samba and smb are not the same.

  • samba = Active Directory service
  • smb = file sharing

Don’t set password for smb user

These are useless if you don’t disable guest logins. And you’re probably better of setting passwords for the system users. They will sync automatically on Debian/Ubuntu.

smbpasswd -a aike