Environment
Reload (all version)
Situation
Resolution
The default protocol for mounting a Windows server is CIFS. Go through the following steps to create a mount;
1) Create a share on the Windows server with the correct rights
2) Create a temporary directory under the /mnt directory. In this example we will use 'gwtemp' (/mnt/gwtemp). This is where a mount will be created for the remote file system.
Example: mkdir /mnt/temp
3) Create a mount to the remote file system. This is done using the "mount" command.
mount -t cifs -o username=<windows user>,password=<password> //<ip of remote server/share directory> /<path to local directory>
example: mount -t cfis -o username=administrator,password=gwavaadmin //10.1.11.104/po1 /mnt/gwtemp
4) Change directory to the newly mounted directory, this should look like the root of the post office directory.
example: cd /mnt/gwtemp