Samba

Mounting a Windows Share on Fedora

To test if your Linux machine sees the shares on the Windows box:

smbclient -L <windows-box> -U <username>

Note: The syntax -username=<username>,password=<password> saves the password.

• Make a directory for the mountpoint:

mkdir /mnt/<name-of-mount-point>

• Mount the share:

mount -t smbfs -o username=<username>,password=<password> //<win-box>/<share> /mnt/<name-of-mountpoint> 

• Create a symbolic link to the mounted drive:

ln -s /mnt/<name-of-mount-point> /<path-of-symlink>

Mounting a Windows Share

mount -t cifs 192.168.1.3:Mythtv /mythtv -ouser=username,password=password

or in /etc/fstab

//WindowsSystem/Share /mnt/mountpoint smbfs credentials=/home/user/.smbpasswd,uid=1000,gid=1000 0 0

or

//WindowsSystem/Share /mnt/mountpoint smbfs username=WindowsUser,password=WindowsPass,umask=000  0 0