Mounting a Network Drive in Linux

In this post we will look at how mount a network drive in Ubuntu. Install CIFS:

sudo apt-get install cifs-utils

Mount password protected network folders
Using a text editor, create a file for your remote servers logon credential:

gedit ~/.smbcredentials

Enter your Windows username and password in the file:

username=msusername
password=mspassword

Save the file, exit the editor.
Change the permissions of the file to prevent unwanted access to your credentials:

chmod 600 ~/.smbcredentials

Then edit your /etc/fstab file (with root privileges) to add this line (replacing the insecure line in the example above, if you added it):

//servername/sharename /media/windowsshare cifs credentials=/home/ubuntuusername/.smbcredentials,iocharset=utf8,sec=ntlm 0 0

If you want to mount the SMB drive with write access

//servername/sharename /media/windowsshare cifs credentials=/home/ubuntuusername/.smbcredentials,uid=1000,gid=1000,iocharset=utf8,sec=ntlm 0 0

Save the file, exit the editor.
Finally, test the fstab entry by issuing:

sudo mount -a

More secure way of login in: Following command will ask the password when entered:

sudo mount -t cifs //10.1.1.1/network_share /media/mount_directory -o sec=ntlmssp,uid=1000,gid=1000,user=username

Source: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/MountWindowsSharesPermanently