Looking for an effective way to quickly access SMB shares from Fedora

IRJ

I am looking for a way to speed up connecting to common SMB shares on Fedora. My current process is definitely not the most efficient way.

I keep a text file of my really common SMB shares that looks something like this

smb://192.168.1.1/share
smb://192.168.1.2/share
smb://192.168.1.3/share
smb://192.168.1.4/share

I open file manager, add a location, and paste this into there. It then prompts me for credentials. After that process, the share is connected until I reboot.

What I want:

To automatically add 3 or 4 shares from terminal with one command that prompts me for password and then connects all my common shares.

Dashrender

I don't know schit about using Linux - but isn't there a way to automount partitions? wouldn't you use that same mechanism to mount SMB shares at boot? or a logon script for your user account that does it when you log in?

travisdh1

@IRJ You are not mounting them within /etc/fstab? I assume you don't want the password stored anywhere.

Bash script it, something like:

#!/bin/bash
read -p "Enter your username: " user
read -p "Enter your password: " pass
mount -t smb -o username=$user,password=$pass //192.168.1.1/share1 /mount/point

IRJ

@Dashrender said in Looking for an effective way to quickly access SMB shares from Fedora:

I don't know schit about using Linux - but isn't there a way to automount partitions? wouldn't you use that same mechanism to mount SMB shares at boot? or a logon script for your user account that does it when you log in?

I dont want automount because I jump networks alot. One thing I have noticed is that if you dont properly disconnect shares, it can cause longer load times in File Manger. I also dont use SMB shares but a few times throughout the day. I would rather just bring them up on demand.

IRJ

@travisdh1 said in Looking for an effective way to quickly access SMB shares from Fedora:

@IRJ You are not mounting them within /etc/fstab? I assume you don't want the password stored anywhere.

Bash script it, something like:
#!/bin/bash
read -p "Enter your username: " user
read -p "Enter your password: " pass
mount -t smb -o username=$user,password=$pass //192.168.1.1/share1 /mount/point

Yeah this is pretty much what I am looking for. However my laptop is not domain joined. I would like to save username and domain. Then just have it prompt for a password.

DustinB3403

@IRJ said in Looking for an effective way to quickly access SMB shares from Fedora:

@Dashrender said in Looking for an effective way to quickly access SMB shares from Fedora:

I don't know schit about using Linux - but isn't there a way to automount partitions? wouldn't you use that same mechanism to mount SMB shares at boot? or a logon script for your user account that does it when you log in?

I dont want automount because I jump networks alot. One thing I have noticed is that if you dont properly disconnect shares, it can cause longer load times in File Manger. I also dont use SMB shares but a few times throughout the day. I would rather just bring them up on demand.

So why not script the shares for any given site, and when you're on-site and need those shares you simply run the bash script.

@travisdh1 posted something that would work well for that.

IRJ

@DustinB3403 said in Looking for an effective way to quickly access SMB shares from Fedora:

@IRJ said in Looking for an effective way to quickly access SMB shares from Fedora:

@Dashrender said in Looking for an effective way to quickly access SMB shares from Fedora:

I don't know schit about using Linux - but isn't there a way to automount partitions? wouldn't you use that same mechanism to mount SMB shares at boot? or a logon script for your user account that does it when you log in?

I dont want automount because I jump networks alot. One thing I have noticed is that if you dont properly disconnect shares, it can cause longer load times in File Manger. I also dont use SMB shares but a few times throughout the day. I would rather just bring them up on demand.

So why not script the shares for any given site, and when you're on-site and need those shares you simply run the bash script.

@travisdh1 posted something that would work well for that.

Yep. I like his idea. I was just replying in order

DustinB3403

@IRJ said in Looking for an effective way to quickly access SMB shares from Fedora:

@DustinB3403 said in Looking for an effective way to quickly access SMB shares from Fedora:

@IRJ said in Looking for an effective way to quickly access SMB shares from Fedora:

@Dashrender said in Looking for an effective way to quickly access SMB shares from Fedora:

I don't know schit about using Linux - but isn't there a way to automount partitions? wouldn't you use that same mechanism to mount SMB shares at boot? or a logon script for your user account that does it when you log in?

I dont want automount because I jump networks alot. One thing I have noticed is that if you dont properly disconnect shares, it can cause longer load times in File Manger. I also dont use SMB shares but a few times throughout the day. I would rather just bring them up on demand.

So why not script the shares for any given site, and when you're on-site and need those shares you simply run the bash script.

@travisdh1 posted something that would work well for that.

Yep. I like his idea. I was just replying in order

So was I, you just rapid fire responded.

JaredBusch

Put your username and password in a text file in your hidden /home/user/.config folder.
Create this file /home/user/.config/smb_creds
With this content

username=SMBUser
password=SMBPassword

Create a folder to mount the share to

mkdir /home/user/mountfolder

Put this line in /etc/fstab

//192.168.1.1/share    /home/user/mountfolder    cifs    defaults,credentials=/home/user/.config/smb_creds,users,auto,uid=1000,gid=1000    0    0

Reboot.

had to google the fstab bit couldn't remember the syntax, so might be off, but should be close.

IRJ

@JaredBusch said in Looking for an effective way to quickly access SMB shares from Fedora:

Put your username and password in a text file in your hidden /home/user/.config folder.
Create this file /home/user/.config/smb_creds
With this content
username=SMBUser
password=SMBPassword

Can I store domain there as well?

DustinB3403

@JaredBusch Isn't that automounting?

DustinB3403

@IRJ said in Looking for an effective way to quickly access SMB shares from Fedora:

@JaredBusch said in Looking for an effective way to quickly access SMB shares from Fedora:
Put your username and password in a text file in your hidden /home/user/.config folder.
Create this file /home/user/.config/smb_creds
With this content
username=SMBUser
password=SMBPassword
Can I store domain there as well?

You'd just enter the username as domain@user iirc

JaredBusch

@DustinB3403 said in Looking for an effective way to quickly access SMB shares from Fedora:

@JaredBusch Isn't that automounting?

Yes, but I was typign all that when from before @travisdh1's reply.

IRJ

@DustinB3403 said in Looking for an effective way to quickly access SMB shares from Fedora:

@JaredBusch Isn't that automounting?

I really like the idea of cred file. That would make things easy.

Instead of autoconfig, I would like a script that I could use for connecting that breaks connection at reboot

IRJ

@DustinB3403 said in Looking for an effective way to quickly access SMB shares from Fedora:

@IRJ said in Looking for an effective way to quickly access SMB shares from Fedora:
@JaredBusch said in Looking for an effective way to quickly access SMB shares from Fedora:
Put your username and password in a text file in your hidden /home/user/.config folder.
Create this file /home/user/.config/smb_creds
With this content
username=SMBUser
password=SMBPassword
Can I store domain there as well?
You'd just enter the username as domain@user iirc

ok. That is easy enough.

travisdh1

@IRJ said in Looking for an effective way to quickly access SMB shares from Fedora:

@DustinB3403 said in Looking for an effective way to quickly access SMB shares from Fedora:
@IRJ said in Looking for an effective way to quickly access SMB shares from Fedora:
@JaredBusch said in Looking for an effective way to quickly access SMB shares from Fedora:
Put your username and password in a text file in your hidden /home/user/.config folder.
Create this file /home/user/.config/smb_creds
With this content
username=SMBUser
password=SMBPassword
Can I store domain there as well?
You'd just enter the username as domain@user iirc
ok. That is easy enough.

I'd make another script to unmount the shares when your done with them as well.

#!/bin/bash
umount /mount/point

DustinB3403

@IRJ said in Looking for an effective way to quickly access SMB shares from Fedora:

@DustinB3403 said in Looking for an effective way to quickly access SMB shares from Fedora:

@JaredBusch Isn't that automounting?

I really like the idea of cred file. That would make things easy.

Instead of autoconfig, I would like a script that I could use for connecting that breaks connection at reboot

You still should dismount the share (in a normal circumstance), but at least the approach @travisdh1 posted won't automount.

JaredBusch

@IRJ said in Looking for an effective way to quickly access SMB shares from Fedora:

@DustinB3403 said in Looking for an effective way to quickly access SMB shares from Fedora:

@JaredBusch Isn't that automounting?

I really like the idea of cred file. That would make things easy.

Instead of autoconfig, I would like a script that I could use for connecting that breaks connection at reboot

Combine the two suggestions.

Don't use fstab, use the mount. But don't prompt for the user/pass, read it from a config file.

DustinB3403

@travisdh1 said in Looking for an effective way to quickly access SMB shares from Fedora:

@IRJ said in Looking for an effective way to quickly access SMB shares from Fedora:
@DustinB3403 said in Looking for an effective way to quickly access SMB shares from Fedora:
@IRJ said in Looking for an effective way to quickly access SMB shares from Fedora:
@JaredBusch said in Looking for an effective way to quickly access SMB shares from Fedora:
Put your username and password in a text file in your hidden /home/user/.config folder.
Create this file /home/user/.config/smb_creds
With this content
username=SMBUser
password=SMBPassword
Can I store domain there as well?
You'd just enter the username as domain@user iirc
ok. That is easy enough.
I'd make another script to unmount the shares when your done with them as well.
#!/bin/bash
unmount /mount/point

Might make that one big general dismount for all of the shares you might even use. Rather than a script per SMB server.

Dashrender

@DustinB3403 said in Looking for an effective way to quickly access SMB shares from Fedora:

@IRJ said in Looking for an effective way to quickly access SMB shares from Fedora:
@JaredBusch said in Looking for an effective way to quickly access SMB shares from Fedora:
Put your username and password in a text file in your hidden /home/user/.config folder.
Create this file /home/user/.config/smb_creds
With this content
username=SMBUser
password=SMBPassword
Can I store domain there as well?
You'd just enter the username as domain@user iirc

or domain\username depending on what type of domain you're connecting to.