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Mounting Samba Share to local directory
After I changed my Laptop's HDD to a SSD, as doccumented here, I encountered an issue related to forgetting to copy over files from my previous intalls' home partition. In this I was wanting to start prepping for a session of D&D, and without my files I couldn't do so. So after looking through my pendrives I found a full copy of my Campaign notes and copied them to my laptop. However, I wanted to be able to access them and change them even if I wasn't in my house. This is where I got the idea for this project.
Background (for context)
I use Vim for taking my D&D notes, in conjunction with the plugin VimWiki it is an amazing tool to write and organize notes of all types.
What I wanted to do
In this project I wanted to figure out how to mount a remote filesystem, a tower I use as a file/media server in my house, to a local directory (namely my Campaigns folder.
Process
Using FTP
I had previously learned how to mount a ftp connection using the package "curlftpfs", so I thought I'd try and see if it would work well with vim when I try to treverse the folders and subfolders. In the first mounting of the the remote folder it seemed to work fine, but as I tried to access one of the subfolders while using vim it caused the program to freeze and crash. So I ended up giving up on using ftp since it didn't come packaged with a fs that supports subfolders.
Using Samba
From here I decided to try and mount the Share instead. Since I used Samba on my spare tower running ubuntu to use it as a file server, I thought it would be a good idea to use it as to mount my campaign directory of my server as it supports it being used as a virtual filesystem.