CKB:Mounting Windows shared folder

Applies to:

All versions of Cryptshare Server

Purpose:

This is an example on mounting Windows shares on Cryptshare Appliances

Solution:

1. log in as root on your appliance

2. install the tool cifs-utils using the following command

cifs-utils

zypper in cifs-utils

3. create a mount point for the mount of Windows share called e.g. windows-share

mount point

mkdir /mnt/windows-share

4. add the following line into the file /etc/fstab

fstab

//<IP or DNS name of the Windows server>/<name of share> /mnt/windows-share cifs username=<USER>,password=<PASSWORD>,file_mode=0777,dir_mode=0777,vers=2.0 0 0

<USER> user with access to the shared folder

<PASSWORD> password of the user mentioned above

5. execute following command to mount the Windows share

mount

mount -a

Troubleshooting

In case the mounting procedure results in an error, check these two steps:

1. Force the Samba Version to 2.0 in /etc/fstab (see line in bold):

//<IP or DNS name of the Windows server>/<name of share> /mnt/windows-share cifs username=<USER>,password=<PASSWORD>,file_mode=0777,dir_mode=0777,vers=2.0 0 0

2. Check if the Windows user has access to the drive itself or only to the folder.