


) and avoids the need to change system configuration files. This works out of the box in several editions of Ubuntu (stock Ubuntu, but also Kubuntu, Xubuntu. You can subsequently make a bookmark for easy one-click access in the future. Code: mkdir /mnt/srcr ls -ld /mnt/srcr drwxr-xr-x 2 root vboxsf 512 Nov 6 00:03 /mnt/srcr sudo mount -t vboxvfs Source /mnt/srcr ls -ld /mnt/srcr drwxr-xr-x 1 root wheel 576 Oct 14 21:45 /mnt/srcr. I tried this in FreeBSD I used this procedure, however the group gets changed on the folder to 'wheel' after mounting the shared folder. Optionally, these settings can be remembered. In Debian, I simply created a group 'vboxsf', added my unprivileged user to it, chgrp the mount folder and then mounted. In standard Files, one mounts a drive by providing the URI, in the form ofĪ dialog will pop up to ask login, domain and password. Or followed by the share, as in mount //nas-server/cifsShareĮasier, probably, will be to mount the share using the file manager (Files in standard Ubuntu 18.04). With this setup, any user is able to mount the share with the mount command, followed by the path that was specified in fstab where the folder is to be mounted, e.g.

The option user will allow any user to mount the drive. The option noauto will make sure the drive is not mounted during startup, but will nevertheless register all parameters necessary to mount the drive. To be able to mount that folder as a normal user, include the mount options for the cifs folder in the configuration file /etc/fstab, and add the options noauto,user, similar to: //nas-server/cifsShare /media/user/cifsShare cifs -o username=,noauto,user 0 0
