Samba is a very popular program used to share files, folders, and printers throughout networks with different computers and operating systems.  It's useful if you want to store or share things from one computer, say on an Ubuntu file server, and then access them from around the network, say on a Windows desktop or Ubuntu desktop.

One question I see a lot of mixed answers for on the Ubuntu Forums is "how can I auto-mount my samba share?"  So here are some quick and easy ways to get your samba share mounted on login.

Windows

Windows is pretty straight forward.  The first thing is to open up Notepad.  Paste in the following:

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