mounting windows shares, file permissions.

sudo apt-get install smbfs

edit /etc/fstab and add,

//192.168.x.x/data /mnt/data smbfs credentials=/etc/cifspw 0 0


edit /etc/cifspw as root and add,

username = username
password = password

Change permissions so people (o)ther than those as root and in group root cannot (-) (r)ead,

sudo chmod o-r /etc/cifspw

Try to read it...... permission denied.

Mount:

sudo mount -a

There may be a desire to mount with ownership as non-root. Check the mounting usb drive post elsewhere for instructions.

It reads,

sudo mount -o uid=username /dev/sdb /media/tmp

so specify -o uid=username during mount.