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Mounting cifs URL not implemented yet | Resolved

If you have been running into trouble with the “Mounting cifs URL not implemented yet” error, our experts are here to help.

This error usually occurs when we try to mount a Samba share on our Ubuntu system.

Fortunately, our experts have a solution to help you out:

1. First, we have to create a folder that will act as the mount point for our Samba share. This involves opening the terminal and running this command:

   sudo mkdir /mnt/projects
2. Then, it is time to mount the Samba share as seen here:

   sudo smbmount //192.168.2.28/projects /mnt/projects -o user=USERNAME

   Here, smbmount mounts the Samba share, ‘//192.168.2.28/projects’ is the address of the Samba share, ‘/mnt/projects’ is the directory where we’re mounting the share, ‘-o’ is used to specify options, and ‘user=USERNAME’ is the Samba server username.
3. In case we want to access a specific folder in the share, we cannot mount it directly. Then, we have to create a symbolic link to it:

   sudo ln -s /mnt/projects/myProject /mnt/myProject

   Here, ‘ln -s’ creates a symbolic link, ‘/mnt/projects/myProject’ is the source directory, and ‘/mnt/myProject’ is the symbolic link we’re creating.

How to Permanently Mount the SMB Share

We can mount the SMB share permanently by adding it to the file system table as seen here:

1. First, create a directory that will be the permanent mount point for the share.
2. Then, we must modify the permissions of the directory so that our users can access it.

   sudo chown username:username /mnt/myShare
3. Now, we have to create a file with our domain credentials:

   username=domain_user
password=domain_password
domain=domain
4. Then, add the following line in our ‘/etc/fstab’ file:

   //smb_hostname/share_name /mnt/myShare cifs credentials=/path/to/credentials,file,rw,uid=user,user 0 0
5. Finally, it is time to mount the share with the ‘mount’ command.

   sudo mount /mnt/myShare

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Conclusion

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