[SOLVED] How to change the mounting point of samba shares?

[sfolter]

I have two samba shares on the network, which I mounted through the mount function in Nemo. Currently the mount point for the first share is here: /run/user/sfolter/gvfs/smb-share:server=dd-wrt,share=h/
How to mount this share to a different folder? For example /media/h/
Thank you for your help.

[altair4]

You can't - at least not using Nemo, Connect to Server, or Gigolo because they all use gvfs and that's where the developers wanted it to mount. You can create a symlink to /media so that it ends up as /media/gvfs/smb-share:server=dd-wrt,share=h/ but that's not saving you much.

The only way to specify something like /media/h is to do it manually, something like this:

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sudo mount -t cifs -o username=user-name,password=secret,dir_mode=0777,file_mode=0666,nounix //dd-wrt/h /media/h

And in fstab it would look like this:

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//dd-wrt/h /media/h cifs username=user-name,password=secret,dir_mode=0777,file_mode=0666,nounix 0 0

Make sure the mount point exists:

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sudo mkdir /media/h

And make sure cifs is installed:

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sudo apt-get install cifs-utils

[sfolter]

I was trying to execute this command earlier, but guess what - I haven't installed cifs-utils
Also when I add just dd-wrt, it can't resolve the name so I put the IP address. Maybe to make this work I have to put the IP and name in /etc/hosts
But anyway, now everything is working as I wanted. Thank you for your fast response and help.