Ubuntu – use fstab to mount HTTP shares

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I typically mount the "drive" in question in Windows with an http://1.2.3.4/sharename address. In Linux (Ubuntu 10.04), I tried adding the following entry to /etc/fstab to no avail:

http://1.2.3.4/sharename /mnt/sharename cifs username=myusername,password=mypassword 0 0

When I mount /mnt/sharename, I see this error:

mount, wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on http://1.2.3.4/sharename

How can I mount this path in Ubuntu 10.04?

Best Answer

http: is usually used for WebDAV shares, so:

  • If you use Ubuntu, you'll probably have GNOME or KDE. Both accept URLs like dav://host/path in their file managers.

    (GNOME also lets you gvfs-mount dav://address from terminal.)

  • If you want to skip the GVFS and Kio layers, you will want davfs.

    (cifs, which you are trying to use, is purely for the Windows file sharing protocol.)

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