How to mount Windows share on Red Hat Enterprise Linux system using CIFS?

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Environment

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6

Issue

  • How can Windows shares be mounted on Red Hat Enterprise Linux?

Resolution

  • Windows share can be mounted on RHEL system using cifs option of mount command as :
[root@host ~]# mount -t cifs -o username=<share user>,password=<share password> //WIN_PC_IP/<share name> /mnt
  • In case your user is in windows domain then you can define the domain as follows:
[root@host ~]# mount -t cifs -o username=<share user>,password=<share password>,domain=example.com //WIN_PC_IP/<share name> /mnt
  • By default windows share mounted with the full permission (777) in Linux. To change the default permission use the dir_mode and file_mode options to set directory and file permission.
[root@host ~]# mount -t cifs -o username=<share user>,password=<share password>,dir_mode=0755,file_mode=0755 //WIN_PC_IP/<share name> /mnt
  • To make the mount persistant across reboots, make the below entry to the /etc/fstab
 //WIN_PC_IP/<share name>    /<mntpoint>   cifs  _netdev,username=<share user>,password=<share password>,dir_mode=0755,file_mode=0755,uid=500,gid=500 0 0
  • If you receive the following error when try to mount the share folder from windows machines
mount error(13): Permission denied
Refer to the mount.cifs(8) manual page (e.g. man mount.cifs)

Please verify the permission on the folder on you windows machine and try again mount the share folder.

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