I often find myself connecting to shares from Windows to Linux and vice versa and I keep forgetting the commands – so here it is:
Connecting to a Windows share from Linux:
- install winbind, cifs-utils and smbclient packages
- change nsswitch.conf file (add/change this line: hosts: files wins dns ), then restart network
- to see what shares are available on Windows box:
root@server1# smbclient -L //10.0.0.243 -U username Enter username's password: Domain=[contoso] OS=[Windows Server 2008 R2 Datacenter 7601 Service Pack 1] Server=[Windows Server 2008 R2 Datacenter 6.1] Sharename Type Comment --------- ---- ------- ADMIN$ Disk Remote Admin C$ Disk Default share IPC$ IPC Remote IPC share Disk
- Mount the Windows share from console
mount -t cifs //10.0.0.243/share test -o username=linuxacademy,password=123456,rw,nounix,file_mode=0777
- Mount the Windows share via fstab
>pre># stuff to put in the /etc/fstab file
# remote windows file share
//10.0.0.251/share /mnt/test cifs credentials=/root/.smbcredentials,rw,nounix,file_mode=0777,dir_mode=0777 0 0
and create the .smbcredentials file under root:
username=windows_username password=windows_password
Connecting to a Linux share from Windows (configuring samba):
- Install samba and samba-common
- Configure /etc/samba/smb.conf file – add or uncomment and modify this section:
[homes] comment = Home Directories browseable = no writable = yes [share] comment = Defalt Share path = /share/ force user = samba force group = samba read only = no hosts allow =
Restart samba: service smbd restart
- create samba username that matches windows account password:
root@server1:/# smbpasswd -a windows_username New SMB password: Retype new SMB password: Added user windows_username.
