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

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

mount point

mkdir /mnt/windows-share

1. 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

1. execute following command to mount the Windows share

mount

mount -a