Comments on: How to mount remote windows partition (windows share) under Linux

By: Sabyasachi Pramanik

Sabyasachi Pramanik — Fri, 13 Jan 2012 13:25:20 +0000

Hi,
my smb client is windows 7, fews are in the workgroup and fews within domain. I’m able to access smb share from windows 7 client. but not able to access windows 7 share from smb server. I’m using RHEL5.
Using the below command.
# mount -t cifs //servername/sharename /mnt/mountpoint \
-o username=myusername,password=mypassword
Error getting: “error “mount error 110 = Connection timed out”.
please suggest.

By: siva

siva — Fri, 07 Oct 2011 09:52:36 +0000

Thanks a lot. this saved me a bunch of time..

+ Siva +

By: subbu

subbu — Sun, 11 Sep 2011 05:04:24 +0000

-o : are options passed to mount command, in this example I had passed two options. First argument is '''''''password '''''''(vivek) and second argument is password to connect remote windows box above line i think its username not password,

By: hari

hari — Thu, 08 Sep 2011 06:01:11 +0000

**username=Administrator

By: hari

hari — Thu, 08 Sep 2011 05:58:39 +0000

I actually tried this in mt linux terminal-

mkdir /mnt/ntserver
mount -t cifs //serverip/ -o username=user,password=password /mnt/ntserver

and it didn’t work. Am I missing something here?

By: hari

hari — Thu, 08 Sep 2011 05:57:18 +0000

I actually tried this in mt linux terminal-

mkdir /mnt/ntserver
mount -t cifs /// -o username=user,password=password /mnt/ntserver

and it didn’t work. Am I missing something here?

By: Alastair Battrick

Alastair Battrick — Wed, 17 Aug 2011 15:20:59 +0000

I had this problem on CentOS 6:
CIFS VFS: No username specified
CIFS VFS: cifs_mount failed w/return code = -22

Which was happening because mount.cifs could not be found. I resolved this by:
yum install cifs-utils

By: Eric

Eric — Wed, 29 Jun 2011 02:23:22 +0000

This procedure worked perfectly for me, as I mounted a Win7-exposed share from a Fedora 14 client. Many, many thanks!!!

By: baljinder

baljinder — Sat, 14 May 2011 11:50:28 +0000

i have use redhat linux 5 on hyper-v,,then configure the NIS server & create in users..first i wont access user profile every users from window server 2008 create in AD,, i wont my window domain users profile mount at my linux NIS users….

am usesing this command mount -t cifs //ntserver/baljinder -o username=baljinder,password=myPassword /NIS/User/baljinder…but only root user read & wright everything not a baljinder user……pllz tell me any

By: baljinder

baljinder — Sat, 14 May 2011 11:42:39 +0000

By: baljinder

baljinder — Sat, 14 May 2011 10:54:04 +0000

hii michael

i do help u,,,u install the nfs-comon utility package… then try it…

By: Sreeram

Sreeram — Wed, 23 Mar 2011 22:59:29 +0000

Hey, thanks a lot! didn’t know it was this simple to access a windows share on linux.

By: Parvathy

Parvathy — Wed, 09 Feb 2011 11:46:22 +0000

Amazing !

Superb and simple command to share a folder on a linux Box from Windows ..

Thanks a lot !!

By: prakash

prakash — Sat, 05 Feb 2011 21:11:17 +0000

Thanks , it was useful
I was able to mount my windows Filesystem onto linux.

By: Devious

Devious — Tue, 19 Oct 2010 03:31:35 +0000

To all with the following error: CIFS VFS: cifs_mount failed w/return code = -22

You must install samba-client or the kernel will not know the fs type.

Under CentOS/Redhat variants: yum install samba-client

Note: samba (the server) is not the same as samba-client.

By: Julio Cesar

Julio Cesar — Wed, 06 Oct 2010 19:37:02 +0000

Nice post, it worked, but what I need is to used the shared content on windows as my repo for my ubuntu, as I read that smb protocol isn’t supported in the /etc/apt/sources.list I figure that mountin the filsystem an put in the sources.list as

deb file:///mnt/ubuntu lucid restricted main
…

but it doesn’t work on apt-update I get this error

Failed to fetch file:/mnt/ubuntu/dists/lucid/restricted/binary-i386/Packages.gz File not found

and some others like this, so how can I use the repository in this way? some ideas?
thanks

By: g

Wed, 22 Sep 2010 02:54:17 +0000

hmmm… I see, the smbfs command is still working here
I’m using Ubuntu Server and everything works fine.

this is the example command i used before
referenced from your articles as well.
[quote]
$> mount -t smbfs //myTargetWindowsIP/aDirectory /home/myOwnLinuxDirectory -o username=windowsUserName,password=windowsPassword
[/quote]

Enter! Done!

great thanks!

but, anyway, is this permanent?
is it at the time we restart the Linux machine,
we need to RE MOUNT it again?

By: jay

jay — Wed, 08 Sep 2010 07:58:54 +0000

hello every one
i am install window xp then i create vartual pc in fedora11. how can i mount windows partition in vartual pc? pls help me?

By: VicOEM

VicOEM — Wed, 18 Aug 2010 10:04:11 +0000

Cool, it works (Debian -> //WindowsXP/Share) !
Thank you!

By: sampath

sampath — Thu, 01 Jul 2010 09:11:01 +0000

Hi,

I have one shared folder in my remote desktop (windows XP), I am working in linux server through terminal in my pc. I want to mount that folder to linux server. can you help me.

Thanks in advance……