Mount samba share on Ubuntu 20.04 server

How to mount samba shares on the latest Ubuntu LTS release.

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Nothing unusual to do this on the new LTS version.

Make sure you have cifs installed.

shell
sudo apt install cifs-utils

Create share directory.

shell
sudo mkdir /mnt/share_name

Then mount the shared directory.

shell
sudo mount -t cifs //<ip_address>/<share_name> /mnt/<local_share_dir>