Linux: how to mount Windows shared folder
In this article I explain how to mount Windows shared folder in linux Ubuntu (this is the same in the other linux versions). First of all, install smbfs packet: open the terminal and write sudo apt-get install smbfs Now, we have to create the folder where is possible to make the share: sudo mkdir /mnt/windows At this point, we can mount the share folder sudo mount -t smbfs -o username=YOUR_USER,password=YOUR_PASSWORD //IP_ADDRESS/SHARED_NAME_FOLDER /mnt/windows replace YOUR_USER and YOUR_PASSWORD with Windows user and the relative Password replace IP_ADDRESS with the Ip address of Windows machine replace /SHARED_NAME_FOLDER with the windows shared folder