brent Posted January 10, 2019 Share Posted January 10, 2019 To mount a windows share on Ubuntu Server: 1. Share the folder on your windows box 2. Create a mount point in /mnt: sudo mkdir /mnt/windows-share 3. Install CIFS-UTILS sudo apt-get install cifs-utils 4. Create a credential file for the windows share. **(You can name the credential file anything you want)** sudo nano /etc/cifs-credentials 5. username=username password=password domain=example.com 6. On your Ubuntu server open the file: sudo nano /etc/fstab edit the file with your information //WIN_SHARE_IP/share_name /mnt/win_share cifs credentials=/etc/win-credentials,file_mode=0755,dir_mode=0755 0 0 7. Run to mount the share: sudo mount -a Create Symlink in Linux 8. Create a shortcut to your new mounted file share: (Article here) Terminal way (the link will appear in the folder the terminal points to): ln -s /folderorfile/link/will/point/to /name/of/the/link Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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