{"id":306,"date":"2011-08-05T10:16:06","date_gmt":"2011-08-05T09:16:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.silicontechnix.com\/?p=306"},"modified":"2011-08-05T10:16:06","modified_gmt":"2011-08-05T09:16:06","slug":"mounting-windows-based-shares-in-linux","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.silicontechnix.com\/?p=306","title":{"rendered":"Mounting Windows based shares in Linux"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Mounting Windows based shares on Linux is a relatively simple process.<\/p>\n<p>If the share is on a Windows XP, Server 2000 or NT machine you can use the following command:<\/p>\n<pre class=\"brush:bash\">mount -t smbfs -o username=username \/\/server\/share \/mountpoint\r\n<\/pre>\n<p>However for Server 2003 the above command will not work so you simply change smbfs for cifs as shown below.<\/p>\n<pre class=\"brush:bash\">mount -t cifs -o username=username \/\/server\/share \/mountpoint\r\n<\/pre>\n<p>The username should be that of your Windows user and in both examples you will be prompted for your windows password.<\/p>\n<p>The command above will work for all versions of Windows. If you are having difficulty mounting or receive an error with invalid file type ensure that the samba-client packages for your distribution are installed <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; Mounting Windows based shares on Linux is a relatively simple process. If the share is on a Windows XP, Server 2000 or NT machine you can use the following command: mount -t smbfs -o username=username \/\/server\/share \/mountpoint However for Server 2003 the above command will not work so you simply change smbfs for cifs [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_s2mail":"yes","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[95,127],"tags":[19,89,135,136,108],"class_list":["post-306","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-system-administration","category-tips","tag-linux","tag-mount","tag-samba","tag-shares","tag-windows"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p12j6H-4W","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.silicontechnix.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/306","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.silicontechnix.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.silicontechnix.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.silicontechnix.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.silicontechnix.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=306"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.silicontechnix.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/306\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":308,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.silicontechnix.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/306\/revisions\/308"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.silicontechnix.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=306"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.silicontechnix.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=306"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.silicontechnix.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=306"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}