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Asked: 2013-09-09 22:46:21 +0800 CST

Where can I find the mount point for SMB shares in 13.04?

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In older Ubuntu releases, you were able to access the SMB shares mounted with Nautilus by going into the ~/.gvfs/ directory. I found it very convenient, since I like to use Nautilus to mount the shares, but do all disk operations (copy, mv, find etc.) using command line.

I now have Ubuntu 13.04, and even though I can mount the share and use it with Nautilus (which I never use), I am unable to find the actual mount point. Is it still somewhere? Or has it been abandoned? Can I get it back?

I know that I can mount the shares using CIFS and /etc/fstab, but I'd rather use the user space. That way, when I install a new system or transfer my home to another machine, my preferences (including credentials) stay in my home directory and I don't need to worry about updating fstab.

Also, I do not want to mount it manually with sudo (with sudo mount -t cifs ...). Yes, I could create an alias or a script, but then I would have to either type my password every time or store my password in a credentials file. And type the sudo password. And then each time I encounter a new share, I'd need to remember how to create a credentials file. So yes, I might end up with this solution, but I would rather not change my current habits, if it is possible.

Furthermore, there is the matter of other users for which I often provide a simple command-line solution. In 13.04, this is no longer possible (for example, because the users to whom I provide the solution are not allowed to sudo mount on their machines).

In any case, I'm curious as to what happened to gvfs and why I can't see the mounted directories.

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3 Answers

  1. Best Answer

    In 13.04, gvfs user-mounts are moved to the /run filesystem

    /run/user/<username>/gvfs

    see Why do my gvfs mounts not show up under ~/.gvfs or /run/user/<login>/gvfs?

    [not flagged as duplicate because the answers there are unclear]

    If you want to keep the old links / scripts etc., just do

    rmdir ~/.gvfs/
ln -s /run/user/<username>/gvfs ~/.gvfs

    Update: gvfs has been deprecated, use 'gio mount' instead. Now smb mounts are located on $XDG_RUNTIME_DIR/gvfs.

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  2. You can also mount it manually using mount in for instance /mnt Like 

    sudo mount -t cifs -o user=foobar,password=foobar,rw,hard,nosetuids,noperm,sec=ntlm //192.168.1.2/Drive ~/mnt/mount_point

    (from How can I mount cifs shares in (k)ubuntu 13.04?)

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  3. In 15.04, 15.10 and at this moment 16.04 (not released yet) there is a confirmed bug in the gvfs package which prevents the 

    /run/user/<*userId>*/gvfs

    to work like expected. A workaround at this moment is to first kill both gvfs deamons before trying to mount.

    To do so just execute the command:

    killall gvfsd

    and any links you make after that will be accessible via the gvfs dir again.

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