#!/linuxSucks/Cifs - Common internet file system
May 29, 2020Common internet file system (CIFS) is a network filesystem protocol used for providing shared access to files and printers between machine on the network.
Install CIFS
Arch based systems:
sudo pacman -S cifs-utils
Debian based systems:
sudo apt install cifs-utils
Mounting CIFS
Mounting from Linux to Linux
sudo mount cifts -o user=username,iocharset=utf8,file_mode=0777,dir_mode=0777 //xxx.xxx.xxx/path/share_directory /pat/to/mountpoint
Mounting from Windows to Linux
sudo mount cifts -o iocharset=utf8,noperm,file_mode=0777,dir_mode=0777 //xxx.xxx.xxx/path/share_directory /pat/to/mountpoint
If the directory in windows has blank spaces in the name you need to escape them:
'\'Folder Name\'\'
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