A project for HPC I by John Kosty during Fall 2014.

• Access, read, and write to windows SMB shares

In order to successfully accomplish/perform this project, the listed resources/experiences need to be consulted/achieved:

• https://wiki.ubuntu.com/MountWindowsSharesPermanently
• http://midactstech.blogspot.com/2013/09/how-to-mount-windows-cifs-share-on_18.html
• https://wiki.debian.org/SAMBAClientSetup
• General Command Line Use
• Confidence in installing packages
• Knowledge of command line editors

• CIFS or Common Internet File System, is a way for me to easily reach my SMB shares as it runs the SMB protocol.
• CIFS will allow me to mount a share using a single credential.
• The reason for doing this is because Windows uses a different file system than linux

* I begin by install it

• This installs almost all of the samba tools as well
• Decided I would place the mount points in /mnt and made the directories

• Next I need to specify the way that the share is being mounted
• This is specified in /etc/fstab to make it automatic
• I added the lines with 192.168.1.253

1. The IP is the IP of the file server the files are stored on, SERVER-FILES
2. Multimedia and Downloads are the shares the file folders are in
3. \040 is the way of representing a space in a address
4. /mnt/abcd specifies the location the share will be mounted on the file system
5. cifs specifies the mount type
6. credentials are stored in a separate file /etc/cifspasswd .. really not needed but I like to
7. file mode and directory mode decide the control over the mount .. 777 may not be the best for production but fine for testing

• To mount without restart I do a mount -a
• Upon checking the mount locations, I can see it was successful all my “legitimate” movies are there

• The same can be said for the music

• Something always important to check is that the special characters are coming in right. Dont want half you music to not show up

• Although it shows up, I may have to change settings in subsonic and plex itself later on

Comments/thoughts generated through performing the project, observations made, analysis rendered, conclusions wrought. What did you learn from doing this project?

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