Access your windows shared folder on Ubuntu.

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First we install the tools required.

sudo apt-get install cifs-utils

Next we prepare our folder path

mkdir /mnt/data
sudo chown -R nobody:nogroup /mnt/data
sudo chmod -R 0777 /mnt/data

Once done, to keep the folder persistent, we modify the file /etc/fstab with the following.

//yourserver.com/FolderName /mnt/data cifs username=admin,password=password,uid=nobody,iocharset=utf8,noperm 0 0

Finally we mount the drive like this

sudo mount -a

Then you can see all your files in the folder /mnt/data with the ls command.