[Linux] Mount a samba directory with write permission

Why?
Once you have a samba server (e.g. NAS) to store your data remotely, you might not satisfied by using the ftp to access your data.  You can mount the remote directory to your client machine, and use it as if locally.

My case
Client OS: Ubuntu 12.04
Example:
Server: nas.spencer.com
Remote directory: /home/data
Remote account: spencer
Local account: spencer_local
Local directory: /home/spencer/localDic

You might need to install the cifs-utils first

sudo apt-get install cifs-utils

Create your local directory if not exist

sudo mkdir /home/spencer/localDic

Check your uid

id -u spencer_local
%assume it is 1005 

Mount the directory using remote account and local uid to set the permission easily and correctly.

sudo mount -t cifs //nas.spencer.com/home/data /home/spencer_local/localDic -o username=spencer,uid=1005

If you want to unmount the directory

sudo umount /home/spencer_local/localDic

You can also assign permission like this:

sudo mount -t cifs //nas.spencer.com/home/data /home/spencer_local/localDic -o username=spencer,uid=1005,file_mode=0664,dir_mode=0775

Note:
1. You cannot use the ip of your server because of a bug in this linux kernel.
2. This post supposed to work under other Unix-like OS as well.