How to mount windows shares from linux

To mount windows shares from linux you will need the following:
  1. SMB support in the kernel enabled for older Windows OS versions
  2. CIFS support in the kernel enabled for new Windows OS versions
  3. Samba installed (in Debian this is: smbfs samba-common smbclient)

To mount a older windows network share use:

mount -t smbfs //server/share /mnt -ouser=windowsuser

To mount a new windows network share use:

mount -t cifs //server/share /mnt -ouser=windowsuser

You can specify your password on the command line as follows:

mount -t cifs //server/share /mnt -ouser=windowuser,password=windowspass

Last updated: 09/08/2006