How to access a Windows share via Linux?

Question

I've a windows shared folder which I can access by typing \\share\files\ in "run".

I need to use that in Ubuntu. So I added \\share\files\ /mnt/share/ cifs guest,uid=0,iocharset=utf8 0 0 in /etc/fstab.
And then issued mount -a. I got directory not resolvable error mount error: could not resolve address for share: Unknown error.

I'm pretty new here, can you please help me?

Edit 1: I tried adding //share/files/ /mnt/share/ cifs guest,uid=0,iocharset=utf8 0 0 in /etc/fstaband issuing mount -a command and got same error.

I used id -u and got 0, used that in uid=0.

Edit 2

I used IP (//192.168.1.222/files/ /mnt/share/ cifs guest,uid=0,iocharset=utf8 0 0) instead of directory path and got the following error message

Permission denied
Refer to the mount.cifs(8) manual page (e.g. man mount.cifs)

I think that should be all forward slashes? See https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/samba#Add_Share_to_.2Fetc.2Ffstab — Brian Z, Oct 04 '14 at 03:54
Related (but probably not really a duplicate): [Proper fstab entry to mount a samba share on boot?](http://askubuntu.com/questions/157128/proper-fstab-entry-to-mount-a-samba-share-on-boot) — Eliah Kagan, Oct 04 '14 at 04:07
I just tried using forward slashes with same error. Any other idea? — IFightCode, Oct 04 '14 at 04:39
Have you checked (using `ping` perhaps) that you can resolve share from that PC? — agc93, Oct 04 '14 at 05:11
You can ping the IP, but can you ping by name? In other words, can your machine resolve the name `share` to the corresponding IP address? — Gord Thompson, Oct 04 '14 at 07:46
it looks like a password is required (no guest allowed), is that true? did you ever enter a (remembered) password in windows. In that case you need to have a credentials file let me know. Is it a NAS? — Jacob Vlijm, Oct 04 '14 at 07:58
No, using any windows machine, I can access without using any password. Not sure if that's because of using same workgroup. — IFightCode, Oct 04 '14 at 08:02
Is the `Guest` account enabled on the Windows machine? If not, then you will need to provide credentials for this to work. If the `Guest` account is not enabled and you can connect to the share from another Windows machine without supplying credentials then in that case you are (implicitly) using *pass-through authentication*. — Gord Thompson, Oct 04 '14 at 08:11
Can you connect to the share from the Ubuntu system by using `smbclient`? Might be easier to troubleshoot that way first before you try to mount. — Brian Z, Oct 04 '14 at 09:11
Actually guest account wasn't activated, so the issues were arisen. Thanks guys for helping me. — IFightCode, Oct 04 '14 at 16:13

Jacob Vlijm · Accepted Answer · 2014-10-04T09:22:54.787

To mount a share via fstab, you should:

create a mount point (directory) to mount the share into. I am not sure if /mnt/share/ exists?
use forward slash
add the ip address of the share before the share name in the fstab file.
if not installed already: install cifs utils
for a guest account (unprotected share), you should use guest,uid=1000 as user id, to make the guest owner.
to enter a password protected share, you need to set the user id to the share's user name and the reference to a credentials file (see example below)

As an example, my line in the fsatb file looks like (the \040 is an escape for the space):

//192.168.0.104/werkmap_documenten/documenten\040Jacob /home/jacob/Netwerkmap cifs auto,iocharset=utf8,uid=jacob,gid=users,credentials=/root/.cifscredentials,file_mode=0775,dir_mode=0775 0 0

I updated question, can you please check one more time? – IFightCode Oct 04 '14 at 07:55 — IFightCode, Oct 04 '14 at 07:55

How to access a Windows share via Linux?

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