Mount a CIFS/Samba share in read-write mode in Linux

Mount a CIFS/Samba share in Linux with read & write permissions

Prerequisites

Credentials

If credentials are required, create a credentials file in a secure folder

vim /secrets/domain_creds

And populate it with your domain/host Credentials

username=<username>
password=<password>
domain=<domain or hostname>

Then limit the permissions to prevent reads by other users

chmod 600 /secrets/domain_creds

Mount

Edit /etc/fstab and append a line to ensure the shared folder will be mounted during startup

sudo vim /etc/fstab

Append line in the format:

<remote_path> <local_path> cifs credentials=<cred_file>,uid=<uid>,gid=<gid>,vers=3.0,iocharset=utf8,file_mode=0777,dir_mode=0777,noperm    0    0

Example:

//10.0.0.4/Library /mnt/library cifs credentials=/secrets/my_server,uid=1000,gid=1000,vers=3.0,iocharset=utf8,file_mode=0777,dir_mode=0777,noperm    0    0

Save the changes and then mount:

sudo mount -a