Mount CIFS/SMB (Windows) Share on Linux

Install CIFS/Samba client

sudo apt-get install cifs-utils

Manual mount

• sudo mount -t cifs -o domain=yourdomain,username=yourusername //your-cifs-server.your-domain.org/yourshare /mnt/yourshare

Auto mount

• Create a credentials file at /etc/cifs-credentials

  domain=yourdomain
  username=yourusername
  password=yourpassword
    

• Edit /etc/fstab as root (or sudo)

  //your-cifs-server.your-domain.org/yourshare /mnt/yourshare cifs credentials=/etc/cifs-credentials  0 0
    

• sudo mount -a

See also

• mount.cifs: mount error 13 = Permission denied