Saturday, January 7, 2012

Mount windows share in Linux



Both the K desktop environment (KDE), and the GNOME desktop allow you to explore remote Samba shares, or Microsoft windows shares. However there are times when you cannot use these - for example if you wished to backup a remote machine from a shell script.
For these jobs the Samba File System kernel module, and tools, are a much better fit.
To mount a remote system directly upon your current system you'll need:
  • The cifs kernel module
  • The smba-client package
  • A mountpoint - this is just an empty directory.
  • The Name/IP address of the host to connect to.
  • Login credentials to the remote share - both username and password.
  • Local root privileges to do the mount, and load the kernel module.


First check samba-client is install or not








 Install modules through following commands















 Create mount point and mount 






Auto-mount through /etc/fstab
create credentials file 
specifies a file that contains a username and/or password. The format of the file is:
username=value
password=value

fstab entry:
//192.168.0.13/test-logs /win-share             cifs    credentials=/root/passwdfile 0 0

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