How to cd into smb://user@100.100.100.100 from terminal?

Question

I am using ubuntu and gnome on my computer.

When I open up File Browser, on the left hand rail, I see conveniently a folder called "Work Server". When I mouse over it, the following caption appears "smb://john@69.100.100.1". If I click on that folder, then I can see the contents of that folder. Everything is great.

So now when I open up a terminal/shell, I type in

cd smb://john@69.100.100.1

I get an error saying the directory doesn't exist. How do I enter this directory via shell/terminal?

Answer 1

The reason you can't cd in that share is because cd only works on local filesystems*, you have two ways of solving your problem here:

Use smbclient to browse the share:

smbclient -U john //69.100.100.1/SHARENAME

or mount -t cifs if you want to mount the share locally, note that the mount point must exist as a folder:

sudo mount -t cifs -o user=john,iocharset=utf8,noperm //69.100.100.1/SHARENAME ~/shares/SHARENAME 

Make sure you adapt SHARENAME to match your environnement.

If your login is part of an Active Directory domain you may want to add its name to those commands, with the second one that would be:

sudo mount -t cifs -o user=YOURDOMAIN//john,iocharset=utf8,noperm //69.100.100.1/SHARENAME ~/shares/SHARENAME

* The meaning of "local" here is not straightforward, just keep in mind you can't use normal tools before you mount remote FS locally.

Answer 2

Shamelessly borrowed from https://askubuntu.com/questions/101029/how-do-i-mount-a-cifs-share

terminal command is:

mount -t cifs -o username=USERNAME,password=PASSWD //192.168.1.88/shares /mnt/share

note you may need to install cifs-utils