Network drives sitting in a server rack. Credit to Flickr user gothopotam.

The situation

A workstation is running Linux Mint 17 (based on Ubuntu 14.04), and the user needs permanent access to network drives stored on a Windows Server. The drives appear on Windows workstations like so:

M: Data

N: Secret Files

What we need to do is make sure that each network drive is automatically mapped and mounted on boot. Luckily for us, doing this is easy with a little help from the CIFS package and a few tweaks.

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