Comments on: Access Windows Shares from Linux

By: Elangovan

Elangovan — Tue, 04 Oct 2011 12:07:15 +0000

Use the following command to mount windows shared folder into Mac OS X

To mount:
mount -t smbfs //username@sharedIP/shared folder /target
(i.e. mount -t smbfs //administrator@10.1.2.3/source /target/)

To unmount:
umount /target/

By: shivakalyan

shivakalyan — Sat, 24 Sep 2011 10:59:37 +0000

Raja replace smbfs to cifs. I had the same issue and it worked for me when i use cifs

By: Paul

Paul — Mon, 19 Sep 2011 14:55:15 +0000

@Raja
You probably don’t have the filesystem type installed… if you’re using a debian-based system (this should work for Ubuntu), do apt-get search smbfs to find the package name, then apt-get install

That should fix your problem…

By: Raja

Raja — Mon, 12 Sep 2011 06:01:49 +0000

Why my system is not supporting smbfs….?
i’m getting the error as “mount: unknown filesystem type ‘smbfs’ “

By: PASHA

PASHA — Tue, 14 Jun 2011 18:50:15 +0000

Access Windows dir from Linux
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[root@localhost ~]# mount //ipaddress/test /wintest
Password:

[ //ipaddress is a windows system ip and "test" is the windows shared folder name ]

[ /wintest is the one of linux dir, given full permission ]

[ "password" is the windows login password ]

By: Robert

Robert — Thu, 23 Dec 2010 15:04:41 +0000

Is it works for me as i am using windows server 2008 and solaris Sun 5.10
Please help me.

By: bharath vn

bharath vn — Sat, 23 Oct 2010 15:56:00 +0000

I’m seeing the same problem. I can get around it by using the -d argument, but that means I don’t get back the return code from the process I started remotely.

It gives the workaround, but not ideal.

By: Rajgopal H.Gundgurti

Rajgopal H.Gundgurti — Fri, 30 Jul 2010 11:05:17 +0000

Before deleting any directory, we need to un mount it.
type df -h see the mounted file systems.
then unmount the perticular file system
Example: umount /mnt/win
Then, you need to delete the directory.
If you dont unmount and give rm -rf everything in the mounted windows share will be lost.

By: Linux/Windows Newbie

Linux/Windows Newbie — Wed, 07 Jul 2010 01:10:10 +0000

Does deleting the local mount point (rm -r) delete the remote Windows shared folder?

By: newbie

newbie — Mon, 28 Jun 2010 13:31:08 +0000

I’m newbie in LINUX
The command ” # mkdir -p /mnt/win” destroyed the previous records under /mnt/win.
I’m so sad…

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Thu, 24 Jun 2010 14:52:42 +0000

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By: Andrzej

Andrzej — Wed, 05 May 2010 21:49:05 +0000

Hello, I have a small problem with windows and linux in the same network. I want from linux see all PC in the network. How I can do that with samba?

By: Ben

Ben — Mon, 25 Jan 2010 03:23:10 +0000

mount -t smbfs didn’t work for me on Fedora 7.
The solution is to use: mount -t cifs

By: Chingson

Chingson — Sat, 24 Oct 2009 10:52:31 +0000

I’ve seen so many distributions, there is no one can browse share [though nautilus does, but .. open file in windows share with nautilus is .. nightmare ] or “create a share” like genuine Windows..Just by right mouse click..

By: matt

matt — Mon, 05 Oct 2009 04:24:25 +0000

This helped out a lot. Thanks!

By: Vivek Gite

Vivek Gite — Wed, 24 Jun 2009 04:57:52 +0000

read mount man page, it has all info.
man mount

By: Alex D

Alex D — Tue, 23 Jun 2009 21:34:06 +0000

Would someone be so kind as to explain what the:

auto,gid=users,fmask=0664,dmask=0775,iocharset=iso8859-15

part of the fstab is for.

New to Linux, please assume I’m stupid.

By: homer

homer — Mon, 23 Feb 2009 03:35:49 +0000

Did the above, mount is there, I can acces it, but I can’t dump it to tape
using the dump command.?

Homer

By: carpii

carpii — Mon, 26 Jan 2009 11:49:47 +0000

The ‘fmask’ and ‘dmask’ smbfs options are deprecated

Use file_mode and dir_mode instead

By: Dan

Dan — Tue, 17 Jun 2008 00:05:22 +0000

Just to let you know – if you put a space with the equals sign in your credentials file, like this:

username = someuser
password = somepass

it will error out ‘permission denied’

You HAVE to have no spaces on each line like this:

username=someuser
password=somepass