This manual describes the configuration between windows and linux system. You would like to access MS-Windows share called //windowsserver/dbms_backup$ by mounting to /u02/backup directory under Linux system. Type the following command (replace username, windows server name, share name and password with your own values)
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root> mkdir -p /u02/backup root> mount -t cifs </code><code>//windowsserver/dbms_backup$ </code><code>username=(domain/)windowsuser,password='password' //windowsserver/dbms_backup$ /u02/backup |
Next create the cifs password file.
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root> mkdir /etc/smbmounts root> vi /etc/smbmounts/.server1 |
Add the user information.
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username = windowsuser password = password domain = domain |
Save and close the file. Set the proper right for the root user
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root> chown 0.0 /etc/smbmounts/.server1 root> chmod 600 /etc/smbmounts/.server1 |
For the share //windowsserver/sharename to be automatically mounted at every system start insert an rule in the file /etc/fstab
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root> vi /etc/fstab |
Append following line, the directio parameter is necessary when you want to make exports to the windows share.
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//windowsserver/dbms_backup$ /u02/backup cifs directio,credentials=/etc/smbmounts/.server1,iocharset=utf8,file_mode=0777,dir_mode=0777 1 3 |
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