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What is a simple way to (temporarily) mount a windows share from within Ubuntu 11.04 via the command line?

Basically, I'd like the path /home/myuser/windowsbox to map to a windows share. (Need to supply user/pass/domain)

Most of the tutorials I can find use fstab for a permanent mapping. The GUI options do not let me specify a local path for the mounting.

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Just use mount -t cifs to do it from command line. Consult manpage for mount to learn about additional options like user/password/explicit filename encoding/file ownership etc. You would unmount it using umount /home/myuser/windowsbox

In particular see the uid/gid options. This will let normal users access the share.

There's also smbfs as mount type but please don't use it since it's being obsoleted by cifs.

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+1 for the obsoletion reminder on smbfs. – Tim Brigham Oct 5 '11 at 15:38
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Open a command line and enter the following. 

smbmount //MYWINBOX/MYSHARE /mnt/winstuff -o username=domain//username

From here you should be able to enter your password and mount your volume.

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On my machine I get the error: mount.cifs: permission denied: no match for /home/myuser/windowsbox found in /etc/fstab – nonot1 Oct 5 '11 at 22:11
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