Smbmount
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The program smbmount is used to mount a network drive, using the Server Message Block
(SMB) network protocol. It is a part of the open-source Samba suite. smbmount is identical in functionality as using mount -t smbfs. In fact, when using the mount option it passes the command to smbmount for execution, just as mount -t cifs calls mount.cifs.
Most operating systems require root permissions to mount a network drive. If you receive a (Access denied) or other equivalent error message change to root user and try again. When the share is mounted it will use the root user id by default, meaning you will be unable to read/write the share as any other user. To allow other users/groups to utilize the share use the command line option -o uid=userid,gid=groupid . By default, there is no support for large file systems. To allow support for LFS use the command line option "-o lfs".
If the network drive that you're trying to mount is on a computer that is part of a domain, you will need to directly specify it with the 'workgroup' setting. This can be set via a command line option -o workgroup=domain, or it can be set in the /etc/samba/smb.conf file under the WORKGROUP global setting tag.
A complete command looks like the following:
smbmount //server/share /localdir -o username=user,password=pass,uid=500,gid=500
smbclient cannot mount share subdirectories directly, so may use //server/share and not //server/share/subdir.
If you have the IP address of the remote server, that can sometimes help if you can't connect. Add the remote IP address to the options command like this: ,ip=192.168.0.1
In Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 smbmount command has been replaced by mount.cifs
Server Message Block
In computer networking, Server Message Block , also known as Common Internet File System operates as an application-layer network protocol mainly used to provide shared access to files, printers, serial ports, and miscellaneous communications between nodes on a network. It also provides an...
(SMB) network protocol. It is a part of the open-source Samba suite. smbmount is identical in functionality as using mount -t smbfs. In fact, when using the mount option it passes the command to smbmount for execution, just as mount -t cifs calls mount.cifs.
Most operating systems require root permissions to mount a network drive. If you receive a (Access denied) or other equivalent error message change to root user and try again. When the share is mounted it will use the root user id by default, meaning you will be unable to read/write the share as any other user. To allow other users/groups to utilize the share use the command line option -o uid=userid,gid=groupid . By default, there is no support for large file systems. To allow support for LFS use the command line option "-o lfs".
If the network drive that you're trying to mount is on a computer that is part of a domain, you will need to directly specify it with the 'workgroup' setting. This can be set via a command line option -o workgroup=domain, or it can be set in the /etc/samba/smb.conf file under the WORKGROUP global setting tag.
A complete command looks like the following:
smbmount //server/share /localdir -o username=user,password=pass,uid=500,gid=500
smbclient cannot mount share subdirectories directly, so may use //server/share and not //server/share/subdir.
If you have the IP address of the remote server, that can sometimes help if you can't connect. Add the remote IP address to the options command like this: ,ip=192.168.0.1
In Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Red Hat Enterprise Linux is a Linux-based operating system developed by Red Hat and targeted toward the commercial market. Red Hat Enterprise Linux is released in server versions for x86, x86-64, Itanium, PowerPC and IBM System z, and desktop versions for x86 and x86-64...
5 smbmount command has been replaced by mount.cifs