There are two ways of doing this, as a regular user (available only to the person setting it up), and as root (the system administrator). Setting up the connection system-wide using the latter approach will allow read-only access by everyone on the system, but they won't be able to write to it.
Mounting the share in user space
- Open the Files file manager.
- Files » Connect to Server.
- For the Server Address, enter the following (where HOSTNAME is the server name and SHARE is the share name):
- smb://HOSTNAME/SHARE
- Hit the Connect button.
The share will now be available in Files on the left sidebar under the Network section, and it will be available from the command-line interface (CLI) over at /run/user/$USER/gvfs/ where $USER is your local user name. I'd recommend adding softlink to more easily access your mounts:
- ln -s /run/user/$USER/gvfs ~/mounts
For more information, see:
- What's the easiest way to mount Windows share as a local folder in home directory?
- How do I mount Samba share as non-root user
Mounting the share system-wide
This needs be done as the superuser, but the share should be readable by everyone. It will add a package to work the target file system, create a local folder to house the files and finally mount the remote share locally.
- sudo apt-get install cifs-utils
- sudo mkdir /mnt/LOCAL_SHARE_NAME
- sudo mount -t cifs //REMOTE_HOST_NAME/REMOTE_SHARE_NAME /mnt/LOCAL_SHARE_NAME
