Automounting a Windows Share from Linux

 Computers and Networking
Jun 292013
  
Automounting a Windows Share from Linux:
$ mkdir /mnt/linuxDirectory
$ mkdir -p /root/projects/cifs/
$ vi /root/projects/cifs/mount.txt
username=windowsUserName
password=windowsPassword
$ vi /etc/fstab
//windows.machine/volume/or/path/to/folder /mnt/linuxDirectory cifs auto,users,credentials=/root/projects/cifs/mount.txt,domain=windowsDomain,file_mode=0600,dir_mode=0700,uid=linuxUser,gid=linuxUser
$ mount /mnt/linuxDirectory
$ ls /mnt/linuxDirectory