How to mount Windows share (SMB)

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This guide shows how to mount a Windows share (SMB) on RHEL / CentOS 8 Linux.
I’ll show you two manners. The first is temporary mount, and the other is automatic and persistent.

Preparation

Install cifs-utils.

yum install cifs-utils

Temporary mount

This is the way to mount temporarily. If you follow this procedures, a mounted folder is unmounted after OS reboot.

(1) Create a mount point directory.

mkdir /mnt/nas

(2) To mount a Windows shared folder, run the following command.

Note: Assume that a network path of Windows shared folder is //192.168.1.1/share

mount -t cifs -o user=[User Name],password=[Password] //192.168.1.1/share /mnt/nas

To unmount a mounted folder, run the following command.

umount /mnt/nas

The procedures for temporary mount is completed.
If you follow that, a mounted folder is unmounted after OS reboot.
The following is for automatic and persistent mount.

Automatic and persistent mount

The following guide shows the procedure for automatic and persistent mount.

(1) Create a mount point directory.

mkdir /mnt/nas

(2) Edit fstab.

vi /etc/fstab

Add the following to the last line of the fstab.
Note: Assume that a network path of Windows shared folder is //192.168.1.1/share

//192.168.1.1/share /mnt/nas cifs user=[User Name],password=[Password],defaults 0 0

(3) Refrect the fstab.

mount -a

That’s about it.