{"id":4149,"date":"2018-02-27T17:51:55","date_gmt":"2018-02-27T17:51:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/geekdecoder.com\/?p=4149"},"modified":"2018-02-27T17:51:55","modified_gmt":"2018-02-27T17:51:55","slug":"linux-mount-cifs-windows-share","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.qbytes.cloud\/index.php\/2018\/02\/27\/linux-mount-cifs-windows-share\/","title":{"rendered":"Linux mount CIFS Windows Share"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>CIFS stands for Common Internet File System. This is application-level network protocol mainly used to provide shared access to files, printers, serial ports, and miscellaneous communications between nodes. You can access CIFS share from Linux and mount them as a regular filesystem. This is handy if there is a backup service like Infrascale where you set up a windows computer to be backed up. As there is no linux application for infrascale.<\/p>\n<p>The following example values will be used in this example:<\/p>\n<p>IP address for the server: 192.168.1.104<br \/>\nShare name on Windows Server: C:\\backuptemp<br \/>\nUser name: testuser<br \/>\nDomain: testdomain<br \/>\nMount point on Linux Server: \/mnt\/winmount<\/p>\n<p>The environment is a Windows Domain with Active Directory. There is a file share set up as C:\\backuptemp<\/p>\n<p>Make the local mount point on the linux server:<\/p>\n<pre class=\"brush: bash; title: ; notranslate\" title=\"\">\n# mkdir mnt\/winmount\n<\/pre>\n<p>To mount the network share, use the following command and enter the password of the user:<\/p>\n<pre class=\"brush: bash; title: ; notranslate\" title=\"\">\n# mount -t cifs \/\/192.168.1.104\/backuptemp \/mnt\/winmount -o user=testuser\n<\/pre>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CIFS stands for Common Internet File System. This is application-level network protocol mainly used to provide shared access to files, printers, serial ports, and miscellaneous communications between nodes. You can access CIFS share from Linux and mount them as a regular filesystem. This is handy if there is a backup service like Infrascale where you &#8230; <a title=\"Linux mount CIFS Windows Share\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.qbytes.cloud\/index.php\/2018\/02\/27\/linux-mount-cifs-windows-share\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Linux mount CIFS Windows Share\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[139],"class_list":["post-4149","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-administration","tag-linux"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.qbytes.cloud\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4149","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.qbytes.cloud\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.qbytes.cloud\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.qbytes.cloud\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.qbytes.cloud\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4149"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.qbytes.cloud\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4149\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.qbytes.cloud\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4149"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.qbytes.cloud\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4149"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.qbytes.cloud\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4149"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}