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mount remote windows share from centos

I am trying to setup a script that will:

  1. Connect to a windows share
  2. Using LOAD DATA LOCAL INFILE, upload the two files into their appropriate db tables
  3. Umount share

Situation:
I can currently vpnc into this remote machine

Problem:
I cannot 

mount -t cifs //ip.address/share /mnt/point -o username=u,password=p,port=445
mount error(110)  Connection timed out

I am attempting to do this manually first
Remote server is open to port 445

Questions:

  1. Do I even need to vpnc in first?
  2. Do I need to do route add for the remote ip/mask/gw after vpnc?

Thank you!

Solution

  • The mount.cifs file is provided by the samba-client package. This can be installed from the standard CentOS yum repository by running the following command:

    yum install samba samba-client cifs-utils

    Once installed, you can mount a Windows SMB share on your CentOS server by running the following command:

    Syntax:

    mount.cifs //SERVER_ADDRESS/SHARE_NAME MOUNT_POINT -o user=USERNAME

    SERVER_ADDRESS: Windows system’s IP address or hostname

    SHARE_NAME: The name of the shared folder configured on the Windows system

    USERNAME: Windows user that has access to this share

    MOUNT_POINT: The local mount point on your CentOS server

    I am mounting to a share from \\10.11.10.26\snaps

    Make a directory under mount for your reference

    mkdir /mnt/mymount

    Now I am mounting the snaps folder from indiafps02, User name is the Domain credentials, i.e. Mydomain in this case

    mount.cifs //10.11.10.26/snaps /mnt/mymount -o user=Girish.KG

    Now you could see the content by typing

    ls /mnt/mymount

    So, after performing your task, just fire umount command

    umount /mnt/mymount

    That's it. You are done.