Monday, September 24, 2007

Mounting the Samba Share

For me, these installs are rarely a linear event moving from point A to B on through to the finish. I have hit my first digression. I downloaded the installation media at my desktop machine, which is Windows based. The files are saved on a network share which is accessible to Linux as a samba share. However, I never mounted that directory, so I need to go back and fix that.

# vi /etc/fstab
Because I'm connecting to a CIFS share, I add this line:

//server/files_directory$ /mnt/files_directory cifs user=administrator,pass=xxxxxxxx,domain=domain.com

# cd /mnt/
# mkdir files_directory
# mount /mnt/files_directory

Now that I've mounted the fileshare, I can go back to what I was doing.

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