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CentOS provides support for mounting Microsoft CIFS or SMB shares. Not just limited to shares hosted from Microsoft Windows, we can also mount shares from any network device that uses the SMB protocol. This includes just about any NAS device on the market. If you understand how to mount SMB shares on earlier versions…
Using the mount.cifs command, mount the SMB share into lib_core using the Active Directory user account _share_library_core. We need to map the UID of our svc_library_core account (5000) and the gid of our share_library_core group (6000) to the SMB share.
How to Mount CIFS share in CentOS 7?
To simply mount CIFS share, execute mount command with sudo command: sudo mount -t cifs -o username=shareusername,password=sharepassword //server/share /mnt You can also execute df -h command check your mount. Checking cifs share mount with df -h command
What is the GID for a CentOS share?
We also want a group on the CentOS server that will map to the share. This group will contain all of the Linux accounts that will need access to the share. Our account will be called share_library_core and it will have a group id (gid) of 6000.
How to install Samba server on CentOS 7?
Install and Configure Samba Server on CentOS 7. To mount samba share on CentOS 7, we need to install cifs-utils package on CentOS 7. The cifs-utils contains the tools and Utilities need to mount shares using SMB/CIFS protocol. Install the cifs-utils package using yum install command.
So when the share is mounted, the standard user can view and open files, just not create, delete, edit and save files. Does anybody have any ideas? To grant full read&write access to everyone, you’ll need to change the mount command to: Note that there are no spaces after the commas – that is important here.
How to mount an external hard drive on a Samba server?
I have followed this https://www.howtoforge.com/samba-server n-centos-7 and have tried MANY different ways of mounting the drive specifically to in the anonymous folder and windows (same machine I’m using putty on) simply comes up with Windows cannot access \\\\ip address\\anonymous “You do not have permission to access (ip address\\anonymous).