General Information

Creating Samba server file shares (CIFS) and mounting CIFS shares on Linux.

Checklist

• Enterprise Linux 6/7

TODO

1. Install Packages

   yum install -y cifs-utils samba-client

2. List remote shares

   smbclient -L <remote-cifs-server>

3. Create local directory structure to mount the shares in

   mkdir -p /data/shared/<win-share-name>

4. Create root ssh directory if it does not exist

   mkdir /root/.ssh
   chmod 700 /root/.ssh

5. Create the CIFS credentials file

   touch /root/.ssh/.<win-share-name>
   chmod 600 /root/.ssh/.<win-share-name>

6. Edit the credentials file, add share's user/pass/domain

   vim /root/.ssh/.<win-share-name>
   
   username=<user>
   password=<password_here>
   domain=<domain>

7. Create persistent CIFS mount in /etc/fstab

   vim /etc/fstab
   //<remote-cifs-server>/<sharename> /data/shared/<win-share-name>  cifs  auto,credentials=/root/.ssh/.<win-share-name>,_netdev,uid=<user>,gid=<users>,rw  0 0

8. Mount the share

   mount -a