HOWTO persistent HOWTO manual sudo apt-get install smbfs Example: create .smbcredentials file with: username= password= domain= chmod 600 .smbcredentials In fstab create and entry like: #rochester nas //roc-nas.foo.com/pathname /media/roc-nas cifs credentials=/home/username/.smbcredentials,dirmode=0777,file_mode=0777,iocharset=utf8,codepage=cp850,unicode 0 0 To mount: sudo mount /media/mount-name or sudo mount -a To unmount: sudo umount /media/mount-name or sudo umount -a