Mount a Windows shared folder using Samba

To list shares on [server] visible to [username] use the following. You will be prompted for a password.

smbclient -L \\[server] -U [username]

To mount the //server/dir share on /mnt/dir, giving [username] and [password] as authentication:

smbmount //server/dir /mnt/dir -o username=[username],password=[password]

Alternatively, the same can be achieved using mount as a wrapper command:

mount -t smbfs //server/dir /mnt/dir -o username=[username],password=[password]

You can add the following to /etc/fstab so that you can mount the share with the command mount /mnt/share. This often means that the share will be mounted on boot by the /etc/rc.d/init.d/netfs script.

//server/share   /mnt/share   smbfs   username=username,password=password 0 0
Last modified: 17/04/06 03:24:34
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