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I'm very new to ubuntu so I'm still very much stumbling around. In the file drawer I can see an icon for my network drive but I cant figure out where I enter or store the user id and password that this network drive has on it. The network drive is a windows based device

Thanks in advance.

andyc
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I like doing this in CLI so what I would do is:

sudo apt-get install samba samba-common samba-common-bin cifs-utils

sudo nano /etc/fstab

Add this line at the end:

//IP_address_of_file_server/path/to/your/files /path/to/mount/point cifs rw,username=username,password=password,uid=1000,gid=1000 0 0

Set uid and gid numbers to match the ones of your Ubuntu user (you) on your machine. Command id can help with determining what they are. Also change the username and password to match your credentials for Windows share.

mbiber
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