9.2 Mapping Drives and Mounting Volumes

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.

9.2.1 Mapping Drives from a Windows 2000 or XP Client

From a Windows 2000 or XP client computer, you can map drives and create shortcuts that are retained after rebooting.

  1. Right click on the My Computer icon.

  2. Click Map Network Drive.

    There are several ways to access Map Network Drive. For example, you can use the Tools menu in Windows Explorer or you can right-click Network Neighborhood.

  3. Browse to or specify the following path:

    \\server_running_Novell_CIFS\<sharepoint | volume> \ directory

  4. 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.

  5. Specify the user name and password to login.

  6. Click OK to proceed.

9.2.2 Mapping Files from a Windows Vista Client

  1. From the Windows explorer, either right click on the Computer icon, from the left-pane or go to the Tools menu.

  2. Select Map Network Drive.

  3. Specify a Drive to map.

  4. 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.

  5. Click Connect using a different user name link.

  6. Specify the user name and password to login.

  7. Click OK to proceed.

9.2.3 Mounting Volumes from a Linux Client

  1. Login as a root administrator.

  2. 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>