Mounting a Windows share using CIFS

Windows shares can be mounted using cifs option:

mount -t cifs -o username=username,password=password //hostname/sharename /mnt

By default, Windows shares are mounted with 0777 permissions in Linux.

You can change the default permissions using dir_mode and file_mode options in mount:

mount -t cifs -o username=username,password=password,dir_mode=0755,file_mode=0755 //hostname/sharename /mnt

To make the mount persistent, add the entry to /etc/fstab:

//hostname/sharename    /mountpoint   cifs  _netdev,username=username,password=password,dir_mode=0755,file_mode=0755,uid=500,gid=500 0 0