You can map drives for accessing the CIFS share names from a Windows, Windows Vista, or Windows 7 client and mount the volumes from a linux client.
From a Windows 2000 or XP client computer, you can map drives and create shortcuts that are retained after rebooting.
Right click on the
icon.Click
.There are several ways to access
. For example, you can use the menu in Windows Explorer or you can right-click .Browse to or specify the following path:
\\server_running_Novell_CIFS\<sharepoint | volume> \ directory
Select the server running CIFS.
Although it is the same computer, the CIFS server name is not the same as the OES 2 Linux server name. For more information, contact your network administrator.
Specify the user name and password to login.
Click
to proceed.From the Windows explorer, either right click on the
icon, from the left-pane or go to the menu.Select
.Specify a
to map.Specify a path or Browse to the desired folder to map to the Drive. In this case, a CIFS share name, for example \\server_running_Novell_CIFS\<sharepoint | volume> \ directory.
Click
link.Specify the user name and password to login.
Click
to proceed.Login as a root administrator.
From your console, enter one of the three commands:
smbmount
smbmount //<ip_address>/<share_name> <mount_point> -ousername=<username>,password=<password>
or
mount -t smbfs
NOTE:It is not recommended to use smbfs to mount CIFS shares.
or
mount -t cifs
For example, mount -t cifs - ousername=<username>,password=<password> //<ip_address>/<share_name> <mount_point>