mount a (windows) network drive using command line

idokus · 12-17-2008, 03:59 AM

I have a problem mounting a network drive, I need to do this in command line, since I need it to be a script multiple users can use.

Manually I can mount it using the "connect to a windows network" tool in the places menu. So the server, share and credentials are valid.

Code:

root# mount -t cifs //<server>/Users$/<userdir> /mnt/local_mount/ -o credentials=/mnt/login

returns:

Code:

mount error 20 = Not a directory
Refer to the mount.cifs(8) manual page (e.g.man mount.cifs)

I know the server-share and /mint/local_mount both exists and the local mount is a directory.

If someone knows what command is equivalent to the mount in the connect to network (windows share), that would be helpful as well.

Felipe · 12-17-2008, 07:01 AM

This is the way I use to mount it
/sbin/mount.cifs "//server/share" "/mnt/point" -o credentials=credencials_file,iocharset=utf8,file_mode=0600,dir_mode=0700

and it works fine.

I suppose that <user_dir> is a share in the server ¿no? You can see it with

smbclient -L server
or
smbclient -L server -u user_windows

I don't know if this is what you are looking for....

idokus · 12-17-2008, 08:32 AM

This is somewhat I was looking for, yet I don't see why that should work and the command I'm giving, isn't.

Perhaps the problem is that <userdir> isn't a share, but User$ is. But that is a hidden share, so it probably won't show up in "smbclient -L server"

Felipe · 12-17-2008, 08:44 AM

With smblclient you list all shares, even if they are hidden.

Windows Explorer doesn't show shares which finish with "$", but linux does.

An easy (and bad way) to hide shares in windows is to put a $ sign to the name of the share. But if you connect from linux (for example, using konqueror, in the url put \\sever, you see all shares, even hidden).

jschiwal · 12-17-2008, 09:00 AM

How is the Users share defined. If the service offered is the /home directory, then you need to mount //server/Users$
instead. If the definition uses /home/%U, then the users home directory is substituted and you should mount //server/<username>.

If you browse to //server/Users$, do you see all of the users on the server or just you?