Auto Mount of Windows Shared Folder on Linux

Auto Mount of Windows Shared Folder on Linux

Applies to:

            Enterprise Linux – Version: any

           

Description:

            I have oracle database 11gR2 on oracle enterprise Linux 5.7. I want to mount a windows shared folder on linux.

Solution:

            To mount a windows shared folder on linux:

·         Login on linux by root user

·         Check the following rpm’s:

o   Fuse-2.7.4-8.el5

o   Fuse-ntfs-3g-2010.5.22-1.el5.rf

·         If not, install the above rpm’s on linux

·         Now create a new folder</data> on linux to mount windows folder

·         Grant read/write permission on windows shared folder<Data_Backups> to a windows/domain user<datacell>, windows machine IP <192.168.1.1>

·         Execute the following command on linux by root user to mount it:

mount  -t cifs  -o username=datacell,password=data123,ip=192.168.1.1 ‘\\192.168.1.1\Data_Backups’ /data

·         Windows shared folder mounted on /data on linux

·         Check mount points execute command:

df  -h

·         /data has been mounted

Now after restart linux machine mount point /data has been disappeared. To auto mount the /data mount point at startup on linux, you should enter the mount point entry in /etc/fstab as follow:

vi /etc/fstab

Go to bottom of  the file and enter the following line:

\\192.168.1.1\Data_Backups   /data     cifs      username=datacell,password=data123 0  0

Save and exit from file.

Now after restart the linux machine /data mount point automatically mount.

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