Here I will briefy describe how to mount a remote windows folder to a local mint linux machine. In general, on the web there are plenty of pages how to do that. However I will focus on situation where windows is using an active direstory or domain based authentication.
First of all install cifs-utils package
apt-get install cifs-utils
or just check if it is not already installed
sudo dpkg -l cifs-utils Desired=Unknown/Install/Remove/Purge/Hold | Status=Not/Inst/Conf-files/Unpacked/halF-conf/Half-inst/trig-aWait/Trig-pend |/ Err?=(none)/Reinst-required (Status,Err: uppercase=bad) ||/ Name Version Architecture Description +++-=================================-=====================-=====================-======================================================================== ii cifs-utils 2:6.0-1ubuntu2 amd64 Common Internet File System utilities
then make some local folder where we will mount remote folder
mkdir ~/share/PC-D
then we will share a remote folder typing following command
sudo mount -t cifs //REMOTE-WIN-NAME-OR-IP/REMOTE-SHARED-FOLdER /LOCAL-LINUX-SHARE -o user=WIN-USERNAME,domain=WIN-DOMAIN
where in my case it should be
sudo mount -t cifs //192.168.10.108/D /home/palo/share/PC-D/ -o user=palo,domain=kis
NOTE: The domain keywors is here important
then you will be prompted for password
Password for palo@//192.168.10.108/D:
so type it and that all is done.
Alternatively you may specify the password within the mount command
do mount -t cifs //REMOTE-WIN-NAME-OR-IP/REMOTE-SHARED-FOLdER /LOCAL-LINUX-SHARE -o user=WIN-USERNAME,domain=WIN-DOAMIN,password=WIN-PASS
Verify it typing mount
palo@PS $ mount ... //192.168.10.108/D on /home/palo/share/PC-D type cifs (rw)
Unmounting
just type
sudo umount /LOCAL-MOUNT-FOLDER
In my case
sudo umount /home/palo/share/PC-D
How to make the mounting permanent?
Open /etc/fstab d
sudo vim /etc/fstab
and add line
//REMOTE-WIN-NAME-OR-IP/REMOTE-SHARED-FOLdER /LOCAL-LINUX-SHARE user=WIN-USERNAME,domain=WIN-DOAMIN,password=WIN-PASS,iocharset=utf8 0 0
in my case
//192.168.10.108/D /home/palo/share/PC-D/ cifs user=palo,domain=kis,password=********,iocharset=utf8 0 0
then remount it all
sudo mount -a
and check with
mount
More secure way of the same
Previous example has a problem that the /etc/fstab may read someone and see your passwords, therefore a secure way of the same is to make a local text file
vim ~.credentials
and put there
username=valuevalue password=valuevalue domain=valuevalue
whare “value” are yours usernanme/password/domain_name
then modify /etc/fstab line from
//REMOTE-WIN-NAME-OR-IP/REMOTE-SHARED-FOLdER /LOCAL-LINUX-SHARE user=WIN-USERNAME,domain=WIN-DOAMIN,password=WIN-PASS,iocharset=utf8 0 0
to
//REMOTE-WIN-NAME-OR-IP/REMOTE-SHARED-FOLdER /LOCAL-LINUX-SHARE credentials=/PATH-to-CRED-FILE/FILENAME,iocharset=utf8 0 0
then close the file and run
sudo mount -a
Done!
Troubleshooting
You may receive after typing mount -a command err message
palo@PS ~ $ sudo mount -a mount error(13): Permission denied Refer to the mount.cifs(8) manual page (e.g. man mount.cifs)
then check your name, password and domain name if are types correctly.
Resources:
- Info on FSTAB https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Fstab
- mount.cifs https://www.samba.org/samba/docs/man/manpages-3/mount.cifs.8.html