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Access a microsoft windows share from the bash terminal in Ubuntu Linux Desktop
Setup
Ever want to access a windows share from your terminal? Well using ‘ mount ‘ and cifs/samba this is a snap.
Make sure you have smbfs/cifs support, on ubuntu linux distributions you can simply type
apt-get install smbfs
Now we need to make a directory on our hard disk where we can mount our windows share.
mkdir /mnt/location
Mounting Windows Share
Now we\’re ready to mount the filesystem on our newly created directory (/mnt/location).
Mount with cifs
mount -t cifs //server-ip-or-name/share /mnt/location -o username=user,password=pass,domain=DOMAIN
Mount with smbfs
mount -t smbfs //server-ip-or-name/share /mnt/location -o username=user,password=pass,domain=DOMAIN
Clean Up
When finished with our windows mount, we should exit the directory, or close any windows that are accessing it, and then unmount the Microsoft Windows NTFS share by using the following series of commands.
cd /; umount /mnt/location
