cifs

At the University of Helsinki, one can apply for group directories, which is simply disk space on a NAS. These are easily mounted when you use a university-managed computer via the university menu, but what about if you use your own machine? At least for Ubuntu Linux, the way to mount these directories has changed multiple times during the years and it again broke recently. The current entry in the /etc/fstab file in my (Vanilla, non-university-managed) Ubuntu 16.04 is as follows:

# HY group directories


The command to figure out what shares are available e.g. on the computer 192.168.0.2 type:
For nfs: /usr/sbin/showmount -e 192.168.0.2
For samba: smbclient -L 192.168.0.2