10.2 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.

10.2.1 Mapping Drives from a Windows Client

From a Windows (7, 8.1, or 10) 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 11 SP3 server name. For more information, contact your network administrator.

  5. Specify the user name and password.

  6. Click OK to proceed.

10.2.2 Mounting Volumes from a Linux Client

  1. Log in as a root administrator.

  2. From your console, enter the following command:

    mount -t cifs

    For example, mount -t cifs -o username=<username>,password=<password> //<ip_address>/<share_name> <mount_point>