Friday, July 24, 2009

Access Windows shares from Linux

To access Windows Shares from your Linux Box, do the following

Step 1: Create a Directory for mounting
# mkdir /mnt/Windows_share_on_Linux

Step 2: Mount the Windows File System
# mount -t cifs //server-ip-addr-or-server-domain-name/share -o 
username=(userid),password=(Password),domain=(AD Domain) 
/mnt/Windows_share_on_linux 

Step 3: To umount
# umount /mnt/Windows_share_on_linux

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