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    Mount Windows Shares on Linux using autofs

    We will learn in this How to mount Windows Machine shares on Linux using autofs. We will use in this lab a Centos 6.3 machine and a windows 7 machine.
    Share folder is available on windows 7 machine named win-share.we will mount this share using autofs on our centos box.

    Let’s get started.

    Windows PC Details :

    Win7.broexperts.com
    IP Address 192.168.0.201
    Shared Folder win-share
    Mount Point on Linux /win-share/share

    Step-1

    Open terminal and enter this command:
    Code:
    [root@w1 ~]yum install autofs cifs-utils
    
    Output :
    
    Loaded plugins: fastestmirror, presto
    Loading mirror speeds from cached hostfile
    * c6-media:
    Setting up Install Process
    Resolving Dependencies
    --> Running transaction check
    ---> Package autofs.i686 1:5.0.5-54.el6 will be installed
    ---> Package cifs-utils.i686 0:4.8.1-10.el6 will be installed
    --> Finished Dependency Resolution
    
    Dependencies Resolved
    
    ================================================================================
    Package Arch Version Repository Size
    ================================================================================
    Installing:
    autofs i686 1:5.0.5-54.el6 c6-media 492 k
    cifs-utils i686 4.8.1-10.el6 c6-media 46 k
    
    Transaction Summary
    ================================================================================
    Install 2 Package(s)
    
    Total download size: 537 k
    Installed size: 3.1 M
    Downloading Packages:
    Setting up and reading Presto delta metadata
    Processing delta metadata
    Package(s) data still to download: 537 k
    --------------------------------------------------------------------------------
    Total 55 MB/s | 537 kB 00:00
    Running rpm_check_debug
    Running Transaction Test
    Transaction Test Succeeded
    Running Transaction
    Installing : 1:autofs-5.0.5-54.el6.i686 1/2
    Installing : cifs-utils-4.8.1-10.el6.i686 2/2
    Verifying : cifs-utils-4.8.1-10.el6.i686 1/2
    Verifying : 1:autofs-5.0.5-54.el6.i686 2/2
    
    Installed:
    autofs.i686 1:5.0.5-54.el6 cifs-utils.i686 0:4.8.1-10.el6
    
    Complete!
    [root@w1 ~]#

    Step-2
    Now Edit /etc/auto.master file and add this entry and add entry after /misc /etc/auto.misc
    Code:
    [root@w1 ~]#vi /etc/auto.master /misc /etc/auto.misc /win-mount /etc/auto.win-mount
    Save & Exit

    Step-3

    Lets create directory which we mentioned above.

    Code:
    [root@w1 ~]#mkdir /win-moun
    t

    Step-4
    Now create auto.win-mount file under /etc/ and add this line into this file.
    Code:
    [root@w1 ~]#vi /etc/auto.win-mount
    share   -fstype=cifs,credentials=/etc/user-pass.txt ://192.168.0.201/win-share
    save & Exit
    Step-5

    Now create credentials file
    Code:
    [root@w1 ~]#vi /etc/user-pass.txt
    username=administrator
    password=Hello12
    Save & exit
    Step-6
    Now finally restart service

    Code:
    [root@w1 ~]#service autofs restart
    Confirm your shares has been mounted using this command

    Code:
    [root@w1 ~]# ls /win-mount/share
    1	2  3  4  New Text Document.txt
    Step-7
    Verify mounted share.

    Code:
    [root@w1 ~]# df -kh
    Filesystem              Size   Used   Avail Use%    Mounted on
    /dev/mapper/VolGroup-lv_root
                            1.5G   704M   739M   49%    /
    tmpfs                   250M   0      250M   0%     /dev/shm
    /dev/sda1               485M   38M    422M   9%     /boot
    /dev/sr0                3.5G   3.5G   0      100%   /dvd
    //192.168.0.201/win-share 8.0G 6.8G   1.2G   85%    /win-mount/share
    Last edited by kuldeep; 02-24-2015, 12:00 AM.
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