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These notes outline using the Samba client tools to mount a SMB share on a Linux server.
Download one of the RPM packages from Enterprise Samba. You can inspect the contents of the package, and then install the package via the following commands:
$ rpm -q --filesbypkg -p <file-name> $ rpm -i -p <file-name>
Instead of passing share authentication credentials to smbclient and
mount.cifs all the time, you should create a file somewhere that looks
like this:
username=Administrator password=SomeLamePassword domain=DomainsAreDumb
Note: It appears that smbclient can handle spaces in the authorization
file, as does smbmount, but mount.cifs doesn't strip them out, which
will lead to an authorization error, and a not so helpful "Permission
denied" error message.
You can now use smbclient like so:
$ smbclient //server/share -A /path/to/authentication/file
Note: Make sure your authentication file is not world-readable.
Using mount(8):
$ mount -t cifs -ocredentials=/authfile,rw //server/share /mnt
You can also use /etc/fstab to make the mount automatic:
//server/share /mnt cifs credentials=/authfile,rw 0 0
Note: When using the cifs mount type, the file responsible for doing
the actual mount is /sbin/mount.cifs. Likewise, when using smbfs, the
file invoked is /sbin/mount.smbfs.
Mount with the --verbose flag:
$ mount -t cifs //server/share /mnt --verbose -ocredentials=/authfile,rw
Peter Jones has been working in the software industry for over 15 years as a developer, manager, and an executive.
