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Mount Windows Shares on Linux using autofs
We will learn in this How to mount Windows Machine shares on Linux using autofs. We will use in this lab a Centos 6.3 machine and a windows 7 machine.
Share folder is available on windows 7 machine named win-share.we will mount this share using autofs on our centos box.
Let’s get started.
Windows PC Details :
Win7.broexperts.com
IP Address 192.168.0.201
Shared Folder win-share
Mount Point on Linux /win-share/share
Step-1
Open terminal and enter this command:
[root@w1 ~]#
Step-2
Now Edit /etc/auto.master file and add this entry and add entry after /misc /etc/auto.misc
Save & Exit
Step-3
Lets create directory which we mentioned above.
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Step-4
Now create auto.win-mount file under /etc/ and add this line into this file.
save & Exit
Step-5
Now create credentials file
Save & exit
Step-6
Now finally restart service
Confirm your shares has been mounted using this command
Step-7
Verify mounted share.
We will learn in this How to mount Windows Machine shares on Linux using autofs. We will use in this lab a Centos 6.3 machine and a windows 7 machine.
Share folder is available on windows 7 machine named win-share.we will mount this share using autofs on our centos box.
Let’s get started.
Windows PC Details :
Win7.broexperts.com
IP Address 192.168.0.201
Shared Folder win-share
Mount Point on Linux /win-share/share
Step-1
Open terminal and enter this command:
Code:
[root@w1 ~]yum install autofs cifs-utils Output : Loaded plugins: fastestmirror, presto Loading mirror speeds from cached hostfile * c6-media: Setting up Install Process Resolving Dependencies --> Running transaction check ---> Package autofs.i686 1:5.0.5-54.el6 will be installed ---> Package cifs-utils.i686 0:4.8.1-10.el6 will be installed --> Finished Dependency Resolution Dependencies Resolved ================================================================================ Package Arch Version Repository Size ================================================================================ Installing: autofs i686 1:5.0.5-54.el6 c6-media 492 k cifs-utils i686 4.8.1-10.el6 c6-media 46 k Transaction Summary ================================================================================ Install 2 Package(s) Total download size: 537 k Installed size: 3.1 M Downloading Packages: Setting up and reading Presto delta metadata Processing delta metadata Package(s) data still to download: 537 k -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Total 55 MB/s | 537 kB 00:00 Running rpm_check_debug Running Transaction Test Transaction Test Succeeded Running Transaction Installing : 1:autofs-5.0.5-54.el6.i686 1/2 Installing : cifs-utils-4.8.1-10.el6.i686 2/2 Verifying : cifs-utils-4.8.1-10.el6.i686 1/2 Verifying : 1:autofs-5.0.5-54.el6.i686 2/2 Installed: autofs.i686 1:5.0.5-54.el6 cifs-utils.i686 0:4.8.1-10.el6 Complete!
Step-2
Now Edit /etc/auto.master file and add this entry and add entry after /misc /etc/auto.misc
Code:
[root@w1 ~]#vi /etc/auto.master /misc /etc/auto.misc /win-mount /etc/auto.win-mount
Step-3
Lets create directory which we mentioned above.
Code:
[root@w1 ~]#mkdir /win-moun
Step-4
Now create auto.win-mount file under /etc/ and add this line into this file.
Code:
[root@w1 ~]#vi /etc/auto.win-mount share -fstype=cifs,credentials=/etc/user-pass.txt ://192.168.0.201/win-share
Step-5
Now create credentials file
Code:
[root@w1 ~]#vi /etc/user-pass.txt username=administrator password=Hello12
Step-6
Now finally restart service
Code:
[root@w1 ~]#service autofs restart
Code:
[root@w1 ~]# ls /win-mount/share 1 2 3 4 New Text Document.txt
Verify mounted share.
Code:
[root@w1 ~]# df -kh
Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/mapper/VolGroup-lv_root
1.5G 704M 739M 49% /
tmpfs 250M 0 250M 0% /dev/shm
/dev/sda1 485M 38M 422M 9% /boot
/dev/sr0 3.5G 3.5G 0 100% /dvd
//192.168.0.201/win-share 8.0G 6.8G 1.2G 85% /win-mount/share