mount remote windows share from centos

The mount.cifs file is provided by the samba-client package. This can be installed from the standard CentOS yum repository by running the following command:

yum install samba samba-client cifs-utils

Once installed, you can mount a Windows SMB share on your CentOS server by running the following command:

Syntax:

mount.cifs //SERVER_ADDRESS/SHARE_NAME MOUNT_POINT -o user=USERNAME

SERVER_ADDRESS: Windows system’s IP address or hostname

SHARE_NAME: The name of the shared folder configured on the Windows system

USERNAME: Windows user that has access to this share

MOUNT_POINT: The local mount point on your CentOS server

I am mounting to a share from \\10.11.10.26\snaps

Make a directory under mount for your reference

mkdir /mnt/mymount

Now I am mounting the snaps folder from indiafps02, User name is the Domain credentials, i.e. Mydomain in this case

mount.cifs //10.11.10.26/snaps /mnt/mymount -o user=Girish.KG

Now you could see the content by typing

ls /mnt/mymount

So, after performing your task, just fire umount command

umount /mnt/mymount

That's it. You are done.

no need to install "samba" and "samba-client", only "cifs-utils" using command

yum install cifs-utils

after that in windows share the folder you would like to mount in centos if you didn't do that already ("c:\interpub\wwwroot" in my case).

make sure you share it with a specific username whom your know the password for ("netops" in my case).

create a directory in centos in which you would like to mount the windows share in to ("/mnt/cm" in my case).

after that run that simple command as a root

mount.cifs //10.16.0.160/wwwroot /mnt/cm/ -o user=netops

centos will prompt you for the windows username password.

you are done.