Whispers of R’lyeh

I decided at the last moment to avoid NFS, because of the lack of security in its default form, and my lack of understanding of how to configure it in a more complicated way.

Also, CIFS mounts mean I only have to do this once, and my Windows machines can use it too

After adding a SAMBA share on the server, it was pretty easy to mount on the tablet:

Step Four: CIFS Mounts

First off, I needed to

apt-get install smbfs

to add the filesystem support.

Then it was just a matter of adding

//shire/media    /mnt/media    cifs    noauto,username=xxxx,password=xxxx,uid=1000,gid=1000

to the /etc/fstab file