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1. Hi,
   i can mount windows share when using gnome mount.
   but if i use CLI then how to mount without password since there is no password required for my windows share..

   -EKram

   1. use the guest option.
      ….,guest,…..
      help is available from the CLI with:
      man mount.cifs

2. When i am performing mounting, it giving me error like cifs file system not found

   1. Do you have samba installed?

3. Thank you, this article really helped me!

4. How can you specify username/pw in /etc/fstab for automatic mounting?

5. @Drew: You can add a line similar to below to /etc/fstab

   //WindowsHost/Sharename /LocalMountPoint cifs username=,credentials=/etc/cifsauth{any file},domain=[workgroup/WindowsHostName/Most of the time can be left blank] 0 0

   Two zeros at end of line are important as it will prevent boot failure when windows share is unavailable.

   Format of credentials file (/etc/cifsauth)
   username=
   password=

6. This article is very helpful can we permanent mount this ??????????????

7. how to mount a ubuntu share on ubuntu using command line?

8. Works.Supercool Vivek !

9. mount -t cifs //[netbiosname]/techsupport /mnt/techupport -o username=[username],doamin=[name],rw,file_mode=0777,dir_mode=0777

   mount with write permisssion

10. Mount in cifs in AIX
    mount -v cifs -n 172.16.69.20/gbuilder/builder\!12 -o wrkgrp=commvault-nj /recutstotest /mnt

    use ‘\’ if your password contains escape sequence

11. thanks a lot.

12. …and what if the folder you’re mounting on the windows share has a space in it? //storageserver/old%20work?

13. Try:
    //storageserver/old\ work

    Just in case a formatting problem crops up, that’s backslash space between old and work.

    1. Thanks this helps me more.

14. file_mode=0777,dir_mode=0777 made the difference, thanks

15. Hi,

    what about if the WIN share has spaces in its name? How do you mount it then?

    thanks,
    Mark

16. i connect to domain and i can able to login using window domain user.i used to mount (mount -t cifs //server-name/share-name /mnt/cifs -o username=shareuser,password=sharepassword,domain=nixcraft) as root worked fine.
    But i need to mount particular user window domain share folder whenever i login as domain user. how to make fstab entry that can automatically retrieve username and password from login information and mount automatically

    1. magaranth,

       I think this is what you want:
       https://wiki.ubuntu.com/MountWindowsSharesPermanently

17. //192.168.1.60/RMAN-Backup/BO_Rman /RMAN/Bck-files cifs user=rman@tt.local,password=2TC@Rman,rw,users,auto,file_mode=0777,dir_mode=0777,uid=oracle,gid=oinstall 0 0
    I write this parameter on fstab and when i start RMAN on oracle user, shown this error “RMAN-03009: failure of backup command on c4 channel at 09/22/2015 03:09:20
    ORA-19504: failed to create file “/RMAN/Bck-files/BCK_LVL1_SVBO_1016_1_891054558″
    ORA-27041: unable to open file
    Linux-x86_64 Error: 13: Permission denied
    Additional information: 3”

    please help me
    I change mount point owner to oracle:oinstall and chmod 777 on it .

18. Seems some shares requires to use “user” instead of “username” in

    “username=shareuser,password=sharepassword,domain=nixcraft”

    replace username with user like this:

    “user=shareuser,password=sharepassword,domain=nixcraft”

19. I have followed the below steps to mount share on debian linux. But i am getting an error as
    “mount error: cifs filesystem not supported by the system
    mount error(19): No such device
    Refer to the mount.cifs(8) manual page (e.g. man mount.cifs)
    ”
    1. Shard one folder/drive in hyper-v.
    2. Installed cifs-utils on debian linux VM
    3. mount -t cifs //hostname/sharedname localmountpoint -o username=”username”,password=”password”,domain=”domain ”

    The above credentials are hyper-v credentials. Is anything i am missing here?

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