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Mount an SMB share.

You need the helper program installed for either the nfs or cifs file system. For nfs based file system, following utility is required

sudo apt-get install nfs-common

To mount a Cifs file system, install the following utility

sudo apt install cifs-utils

Then

sudo mount -t cifs //machineIPadress/folder /mnt/folderĀ -o username=myusername,password=mypassword

To unmount an SMB share, you can use the umount command followed by the mount point directory. Here's an example:

sudo umount /mnt/folder