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 :

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[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:

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[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.

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[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

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 //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

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mount error(13): Permission denied
Refer to the mount.cifs(8) manual page (e.g. man mount.cifs)

Example:

1.checking the mounted file systems: mount | column -t | grep mnt

2. create a folder in 172.29.65.205, and share the folder.example : Test_dd 
3. login as root 

4. issue command : mount -t cifs //177.11.11.111/Test_dd -rw -o username=e_kkkl,password=Password  /mnt/MD5
5. un-mount it :  umount /mnt/MD5