# Samba
Mount a persistent drive on samba, here we're using fedora, same apply to other distros using different package manager.
Query system make sure cifs utils and samba client are installed, if not run the install command for samba packages and cifs utils
```
sudo dnf install samba-client samba-common cifs-utils
```
```bash
csr@MainPC:/mnt$ sudo dnf list installed | grep -E 'cif*|samb'
cifs-utils.x86_64 7.0-2.fc39 @anaconda
cifs-utils-info.x86_64 7.0-2.fc39 @anaconda
cirrus-audio-firmware.noarch 20240312-1.fc39 @System
crypto-policies.noarch 20231204-1.git1e3a2e4.fc39 @fedora-updates
crypto-policies-scripts.noarch 20231204-1.git1e3a2e4.fc39 @fedora-updates
geolite2-city.noarch 20191217-10.fc39 @anaconda
libpciaccess.i686 0.16-9.fc39 @anaconda
libpciaccess.x86_64 0.16-9.fc39 @anaconda
mpdecimal.i686 2.5.1-7.fc39 @System
mpdecimal.x86_64 2.5.1-7.fc39 @anaconda
pciutils.x86_64 3.11.1-1.fc39 @System
pciutils-libs.i686 3.11.1-1.fc39 @updates
pciutils-libs.x86_64 3.11.1-1.fc39 @System
pcsc-lite-ccid.x86_64 1.5.5-1.fc39 @System
perl-Specio.noarch 0.48-4.fc39 @System
qemu-device-display-virtio-gpu-pci.x86_64 2:8.1.3-4.fc39 @updates
qemu-device-display-virtio-gpu-pci-gl.x86_64 2:8.1.3-4.fc39 @updates
samba-client.x86_64 2:4.19.5-1.fc39 @System
samba-client-libs.i686 2:4.19.5-1.fc39 @System
samba-client-libs.x86_64 2:4.19.5-1.fc39 @System
samba-common.noarch 2:4.19.5-1.fc39 @System
samba-common-libs.x86_64 2:4.19.5-1.fc39 @System
samba-common-tools.x86_64 2:4.19.5-1.fc39 @System
samba-dcerpc.x86_64 2:4.19.5-1.fc39 @System
samba-ldb-ldap-modules.x86_64 2:4.19.5-1.fc39 @System
samba-libs.x86_64 2:4.19.5-1.fc39 @System
samba-winbind.x86_64 2:4.19.5-1.fc39 @System
samba-winbind-clients.x86_64 2:4.19.5-1.fc39 @System
samba-winbind-modules.x86_64 2:4.19.5-1.fc39 @System
```
Create a credentials file to hide config from fstab config
```
sudo vim ~/.cred
# Enter credentials for SMB share
username=youruser
password=yourpassword
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```
Set permisions to file
```
chmod 600 ~/.cred
```
edit /etc/fstab to add our smb drive
//192.168.3.100/zfs /mnt/zfs cifs credentials=/home/csr/.cred,\_netdev,defaults 0 0 (optional add file\_mode and dir\_mode if remote server does not have cifs installed this will provide directory and file permissions if needed)
```
csr@MainPC:/mnt$ cat /etc/fstab
# /etc/fstab: static file system information.
#
# Use 'blkid' to print the universally unique identifier for a device; this may
# be used with UUID= as a more robust way to name devices that works even if
# disks are added and removed. See fstab(5).
#
#
UUID=AA4E-9603 /boot/efi vfat defaults,noatime 0 2
UUID=c67309b3-bb04-45fa-8cc6-a26d41301ba5 /boot ext4 defaults,noatime 0 2
UUID=3822a8bd-6ffb-4834-8e9d-f753a4de704e / btrfs subvol=/@,compress=zstd:1,x-systemd.device-timeout=0 0 0
UUID=3822a8bd-6ffb-4834-8e9d-f753a4de704e /home btrfs subvol=/@home,compress=zstd:1,x-systemd.device-timeout=0 0 0
UUID=7062c1a3-df69-4877-b165-c3c9308afd8a swap swap defaults 0 0
tmpfs /tmp tmpfs defaults,noatime,mode=1777 0
//192.168.3.100/zfs /mnt/zfs cifs credentials=/home/csr/.cred,_netdev,defaults,file_mode=0666,dir_mode=0777 0 0
```
run systemctl daemon-reload then sudo mount -a
```bash
csr@MainPC:/mnt$ mount -a
This program is not installed setuid root - "user" CIFS mounts not supported.
mount: (hint) your fstab has been modified, but systemd still uses
the old version; use 'systemctl daemon-reload' to reload.
csr@MainPC:/mnt$ systemctl daemon-reload
csr@MainPC:/mnt$ mount -a
This program is not installed setuid root - "user" CIFS mounts not supported.
csr@MainPC:/mnt$ sudo mount -a
csr@MainPC:/mnt$ ls
zfs
csr@MainPC:/mnt$
```
to umount and mount to modify options
```bash
12:05:20 csr@MainPC ~ → sudo umount -t cifs /mnt/zfs/
12:06:44 csr@MainPC ~ → sudo mount -a
mount: (hint) your fstab has been modified, but systemd still uses
the old version; use 'systemctl daemon-reload' to reload.
12:06:52 csr@MainPC ~ → systemctl daemon-reload
12:07:04 csr@MainPC ~ →
```