Mount Windows share filesystem on linux using CISF

Common Internet File System(CISF) is file sharing network protocol mainly used to provide shared access to files, printers, serial ports, and miscellaneous communications between nodes on a network. You can easily access CIFS share from Linux and mount them as a regular filesystem.

Examples:- 

#mount -t cifs -o username=shareuser,password=sharepassword //server-IP/share-name /mnt/cifs

With domain:- Set the domain or work group of user

#mount -t cifs //server-IP/share-name /mnt/cifs -o username=shareuser,password=sharepassword,domain=xxxx.com

By default windows share will mount with full permission as 777 in Linux server.To change default access use dir_mode and file_mode to set the limited permission on directory and file.

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

#vi /etc/fstab

//server-IP/share-name /mnt/cifs cifs  _netdev,username=<share user>,password=<share  password>,dir_mode=0755,file_mode=0755  0 0

Check the mounted FS.

#df -h