Access SMB (Samba) shares

A bit of background

EGSE Host runs SMB server that by default exposes several shares which you can use to exchange files between customer’s machine and EGSE Host.

SMB requires password that you must setup before first use.

Set-up password

  1. Log in to EGSE Host

    my-machine$ ssh customer@egse-my-egse.egse.sml.lan
customer@egse-my-egse:~$

  2. Run sudo smbpasswd -a customer to set password

    customer@egse-753gf3hhrkivm:~$ sudo smbpasswd -a customer
New SMB password:
Retype new SMB password:
Added user customer.

Access shares (Windows)

  1. Open Windows Explorer

  2. In address bar type \\egse-<id>.egse.vpn.sml.kplabs.space and press Enter

  3. Enter credentials

  4. Enter any of the listed shares to transfer files

Access shares (Ubuntu)

  1. Open Files

  2. On left panel click + Other Locations

  3. On the bottom in the Connect to Server put address smb://egse-<id>.egse.vpn.sml.kplabs.space/<share>

  4. Click Connect

  5. Enter credentials

  6. Transfer files between share and local machine

Access shares (Linux terminal)

  1. Open terminal

  2. Create folder for mountpoint

    local-machine:~$ sudo mkdir /media/smb

  3. Mount share into folder created in previous step

    local-machine:~$ sudo mount -t cifs -o username=customer //egse-<id>-customer.egse.sml.lan/<share> /media/smb
Password for customer@//egse-<id>-customer.egse.sml.lan/<share>:

  4. Transfer files between share and local machine

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