How to automatically mount your local network drive on Ubuntu?
Identify your local network drive. For example:
- Router address: 192.168.0.1
- USB drive identifier: volume1
- Samba protocol version: 1.0
- Username: drive_user
- Password: drive_password
Create credentials file
vim /home/<username>/.smbcredentials # replace username with your user
# .. put the following content and save the file
username=drive_user
password=drive_password
then setup permissions to file:
cd /home/<username>/.smbcredentials
sudo chown root .smbcredentials
sudo chmod 600 .smbcredentials
Decide on mounting point
- Example location: /mnt/Land
Setup auto mounting
sudo vim /etc/fstab
and add the following line (replace <username>) and save the file:
\\\192.168.0.1\volume1 /mnt/Land cifs vers=1.0,dom=microsoft,credentials=/home/<username>/.smbcredentials,iocharset=utf8,x-systemd.automount,x-systemd.requires=network-online.target,nofail 0 0
Finally restart ubuntu and verify it works correctly:
sudo reboot now
Verify logs:
grep 'Mounted' /var/log/syslog*
