Mounting a Samba Share in Linux

Just for my own documentation, here's how I configured the Samaba share from the old server on the new server, courtesy of Tero Karvinen:

Edit $HOME/sambapass

nano /home/myusername/sambapass
username = windowsuser
password = windowspassword
domain = workgroupname

Create an empty directory (a mount point)

$ mkdir /mnt/files2

As root, edit /etc/fstab, add this line in the end (all on one line)

//windowsserver/share /home/tee/mymountpoint
smbfs credentials=/home/tee/sambapass,uid=myusername,gid=users,dmask=700,fmask=700 0 0

Mount everything

# mount -a