How to open College Network Server in Ubuntu

Question

My question might sound ridiculous, as I have no idea what exactly to ask, so please bear with it.
In our college, we have a central server, that we all access.

Various ways we can open it when I am on Windows are:

1. It shows up when we open Network and then by simply opening it, we can read/write contents to it.
2. Type Ctrl + R and then type \\172.16.0.18 (our server), and it opens up.

However, I have no idea how to open it on Ubuntu???

Answer 1

Install the smbclient package, and you will be able to connect to 172.16.0.18 using Places → Connect to Server in Ubuntu (or by opening smb://172.16.0.18 in the file manager). Alternatively, run gvfs-mount smb://172.16.0.18 in Terminal.

To see the computer list under Network, you may need to install samba too. (Its nmbd component handles network browsing and Windows-compatible name resolution.)

Answer 2

Install smbclient and smbfs. If you want to view shares graphically, try installing linneighborhood or pyneighborhood.

Then, from the application "Terminal," run smbclient -L 172.16.0.18 -U%

That should give you a list of shares that you could access.

Then, you need to run:

sudo smbmount //172.16.0.18/Folder /home/username/whereiwanttomountto -o username=myusername,password=passwordofchoice,uid=1000,mask=000