Wednesday, November 21, 2012

mounting window share folder in ubuntu

I wanted to install mailarchiva on my ubuntu box but i don't want to permanent mount the folder to my ubuntu box as i just need it to access some file during the setup. here are the command to temp mount the folder to your ubuntu box

 1) make a dir , i choose to do in mnt as easier to remember
     mkdir /mnt/setupfile 

 2) let start to mount the file from window share to my ubuntu box
     sudo mount -t cifs //win_share_location/folder /mnt/setupfile -o   user=username,domain=domain,pass=password 


 done ! :)

once you are done and wish to un-mount the folder just type

sudo umount /mnt/setupfile 

sudoers in ubuntu

For linux beginner like me i found it is kinda hard when working on a non-gui enviroment. I've created a new user in my ubuntu box for mail-archiva. When i try to sudo and it return with the error message "not in sudoers list".  It does give me a headache to switch account back and forth.

Here are the simple fix  (the text in bold is command line) :-

1) groups  <username> ; to check the group that the user account are currently associated with.
2) sudo adduser  <username> sudo ; to add the new user to the sudo group 

that should do the trick :)