Linux - Samba - How to mount/map a Windows Share on Linux

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Often you use a central Windows repository to save your installation file. In order to make them available to Linux, you can mount a Windows Share instead of to copy them.

If you want to “map a drive” from a Linux computer to a shared folder on a Windows computer or a shared folder on a Linux computer, you use samba.

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Steps

Verify that you see the shares

 
[root@di-obia-01 mnt]# smbclient -L rixni02 -U gerardnico
Password:
Domain=[RIXNI02] OS=[Windows 7 Home Premium 7601 Service Pack 1] Server=[Windows 7 Home Premium 6.1]

        Sharename       Type      Comment
        ---------       ----      -------
        ADMIN$          Disk      Remote Admin
        C$              Disk      Default share
        E$              Disk      Default share
        F$              Disk      Default share
        IPC$            IPC       Remote IPC
        kiosque         Disk
        Users           Disk
        video           Disk
Domain=[RIXNI02] OS=[Windows 7 Home Premium 7601 Service Pack 1] Server=[Windows 7 Home Premium 6.1]

Mounting the Windows Shared Folder

Run the following command to mount the shared folder to a local path:

mount –t cifs –o username=myUsername,password=MyPassword //WindowsHost/WindowsSharedFolder /myMountFolder/MyMountPoint

Example:

mkdir /mnt/kiosque
mount -t cifs -o username=gerardnico,password=MyPassword //rixni02/kiosque /mnt/kiosque

Create a symbolic link

Optional: Create a symbolic link to the mounted drive:

ln -s /myMountFolder/MyMountPoint /PathOfSymlink

Mounting Automatically

Create a credential file /root/smbpass.txt

username=MyUsername
password=MyPassword

Chmod

chmod 600 /root/smbpass.txt

Add this line in the file /etc/fstab

# mounting cifs
//HostName/MyShare  /mnt/MyMountPoint  cifs    credentials=/root/smbpass.txt 0   0

Test it (You must get no error)

mount //HostName/MyShare

Show it:

[oracle@di-obia-01 ~]$ df
Filesystem           1K-blocks      Used Available Use% Mounted on
/dev/mapper/VolGroup00-LogVol00
                      80370408  16157412  60064568  22% /
/dev/sda1               101086     12583     83284  14% /boot
tmpfs                  2172152   1030132   1142020  48% /dev/shm
//rixni02/kiosque    976759804 172971968 803787836  18% /mnt/kiosque

Support

mount: unknown filesystem type 'smbfs'

use cifs instead

tar: Cannot open: Cannot allocate memory

You may get this error when your untar a file through cifs.

tar: ./i9Pi/jre/README: Cannot open: Cannot allocate memory
tar: ./i9Pi/i9Pi.bin: Cannot open: Cannot allocate memory

Solution, on the Windows plateform:

Set the following registry key to ’1′:

HKLM\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Session Manager\Memory Management\LargeSystemCache

Set the following registry key to ’3′:

HKLM\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\LanmanServer\Parameters\Size

Restart the “Server” Service

Credits: Windows 7 Nonpaged Pool Srv Error 2017