Mount | Sharing bet Windows & Linux server

Libraries to be installed are samba-client, samba-common, cifs-utils

yum install samba-client samba-common cifs-utils

Create directory for shared drive

sudo mkdir -p /mnt/sharedDrive

Mount the Windows drive on CentOS server

sudo mount -t cifs //machinename/shareName -o username=<username>,password=<password> /mnt/sharedDrive

View a list of mounted drives

cat /proc/mounts

Un-mount an existing mounted drive

umount /mnt/sharedDrive

To permanently remove the share

rm -rf /mnt/sharedDrive

To mount a DFS share, add following in /etc/request-key.conf file

create cifs.spnego * * /usr/sbin/cifs.upcall -c %k
create dns_resolver * * /usr/sbin/cifs.upcall %k

DFS share mount may not work using cifs-utils since its valid for CentOS-6 (or later) only

View the available shares on a non-DFS machine like so-

smbclient -L ‘//machinename’ -U ieams/nraj

Incase of non-DFS share mounting, one can use IP if machine name mounting doesnt work.

Reference:
http://www.cyberciti.biz/faq/mounting-windows-partition-onto-ubuntu-linux/
http://mikemstech.blogspot.in/2012/10/how-to-mount-dfs-share-in-linux.html

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