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In order to mount a windows share the username can be specified by using the “-o username=” option. Windows shares can be accessed by using credentials which are username and password. sudo mount -t cifs -o username=ismail //FILESERVER/D/Backup /mnt/backup In the following example, we mount the windows share located in the host named FILESERVER in the path “/D/Backup” into the local Linux path “/mnt/backup”. The “cifs” is the file system name for the mount command. The -t option is used to mount Windows share by using the CIFS file system. The mount command is used to mount different types of file systems. The CIFS is a file system and can be used with the mount command. so use the term “cifs” to search and find the exact package name for your distributions.Īfter installing the CIFS client and tool we can use it to mount a Windows share or SMB share. If you are using different distributions than above the package name for the CIFS can be different. The CIFS client and tools are provided with the package named cifs-utils.ĭebian, Ubuntu, Mint, Kali: sudo apt install cifs-utilsįedora, CentOS, RHEL: sudo dnf install cifs-utils Linux distributions like Ubuntu, Debian, CentOS, Fedora, RHEL do not provides the CIFS client and tools by default.
#Winfo cifs how to
In this tutorial, we will learn how to access and use SMB or CIFS Windows share from the Linux system. A Windows SMB share can be accessed with a CIFS client which is installed on a Linux system.
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Both the SMB and CIFS protocols are developed by Microsoft and they work together without a problem. The Windows, Linux, MacOSX, and other operating systems support the CIFS which makes it very useful to share files and folders over different operating systems. CIFS is a network-based file-sharing protocol which is used to share file, folders, and data over the network.