CIFS SHARE ISSUES AND TROUBLESHOOTING

ISSUE How can Windows shares be mounted on Red Hat Enterprise Linux?

ENVIRONMENT Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6

RESOLUTION Windows share can be mounted on RHEL system using cifs option of mount command as :

[root@host ~]# mount -t cifs -o username=<share user>,password=<share password> //WIN_PC_IP/<share name> /mnt

In case your user is in windows domain then you can define the domain as follows:

[root@host ~]# mount -t cifs -o username=<share user>,password=<share password>,domain=example.com //WIN_PC_IP/<share name> /mnt

By default windows share mounted with the full permission (777) in Linux. To change the default permission use the dir_modeand file_mode options to

set directory and file permission.

[root@host ~]# mount -t cifs -o username=<share user>,password=<share password>,dir_mode=0755,file_mode=0755 //WIN_PC_IP/<share name> /mnt

To make the mount persistant across reboots, make the below entry to the /etc/fstab

//WIN_PC_IP/<share name> /<mntpoint> cifs _netdev,username=<share user>,password=<share password>,dir_mode=0755,file_mode=0755,uid=500,gid=500 0 0

If you receive the following error when try to mount the share folder from windows machines

mount error(13): Permission deniedRefer to the mount.cifs(8) manual page (e.g. man mount.cifs)

Please verify the permission on the folder on you windows machine and try again mount the share older.