Hello!

I´ll try to be as clear as possible with the explanation.

I'm an ICT teacher using both Windows and Linux on the same network.

At work we have a file server called servidor (running Ubuntu) with two folders:
publica (pass 1234) and material (pass=xxxx).

This folders are shared through samba to windows computers. Now I am installing new Linux computers in this network. One of them with Lubuntu 17.10 and three more with Ubuntu 16.04LTS.

What I want to do is to access those folders from Lubuntu computer and mount them at boot time to have them on the desktop.

What I tried to do is this:
1) sudo apt install cifs-utils
2) sudo mkdir /mnt/publica and sudo mkdir /mnt/material
3) I´ve edited fstab (sudo nano /etc/fstab) and added this two lines at the end of fstab:
//servidor/publica/mnt/samba cifs username=alumnos,password=1234 0 0
and
//servidor/material/mnt/samba cifs username=profes,password=xxxx 0 0

4) I saved fstab and restarted the computer but it didn't work: Folders are not mounted and /mnt/publica and /mnt/material are both empty.

What am I doing wrong or what am I missing to do?

I will appreciate any kind of help on this.

Thanks in advance,
Glore2002

It appears you're missing the space between the "device" (the URI of the share) and the "mount point" (the directory on the local server. You've also used "samba" as subdirectory of /mnt but say you created publica and material. So it should be:

Alternatively your shares' URIs are actually as you wrote them and you simply left out the mount points.
By the way - you don't have to reboot to test whether they mount. Typing "mount /mnt/publica" should read your fstab entry to mount that and "mount /mnt/material" would do the same for the other mount. "mount -a" says to mount everything in fstab so would mount both. It doesn't do anything to filesystems that are already mounted so is a quick way to test updates to fstab.

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Thanks MensaWater for your help! It worked. Instead of using servidor I've used the IP (192.168.1.200). With servidor it didn't work but with the ip yes! :-)

The problem I am facing now is how to give the folders right to be written and read: publica should be readable and writable by all users (alumnos and profesores) and material only RW by profesores and only readable for alumnos. Is this clear? :-)

Thanks agani for such valuable help!!!

If you run "man mount.cifs" you see other options you can add including for user ID, group ID and permissions. You'd setup using those options in tandem with setup of users in /etc/password and group assignments in /group.

If you want a specific user to own the cifs mount you'd use its uid in options. If you want members of group to have access you use that groups gid in options. You'd set permissions in options appropriate to the level of access you want the user and group to have.