[CentOS] How Can I ...

[Richard Grainger]

If your CentOS machine has graphics (Gnome etc), you should be able to point your file browser at smb://ip_address/share_name

> On 23 Mar 2018, at 23:22, Christian, Mark <mark.christian at intel.com> wrote:
> 
>> On Fri, 2018-03-23 at 22:57 +0000, Tom Bishop wrote:
>>> On Fri, Mar 23, 2018, 5:50 PM Eugene Poole <etpoole60 at comcast.net> wrote:
>>> 
>>> I've got a WD My Passport Ultra 1TB (USB) plugged into my router and I
>>> have 4 Windows machines, all running Windows 7, and all 4 machines can
>>> see the device as drive 'Y'. I use this device several ways, i.e. all my
>>> Windows machines use the same Firefox bookmarks and cookies
>>> 
>>> I've got 5 machines running CentOS 6 x86_64 and I'd like to know what do
>>> I have to do for them to 'see' that same 1TB device? Right now I use
>>> winscp to get the data from CentOS and save it on the device via Windows.
>>> 
>>> --
>>> Eugene Poole
>>> Woodstock, Georgia
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>> 
>> I would assume they are being shared via smb for your windows machines, I
>> would read up on accessing winblows file shares with centos. Most likely
>> you will need to install samba in order to see the shares.
>> 
>> If you can provide more details on how the router is sharing the files for
>> windows we can provide more detailed guidance.
> something similar to this might work for you
> 
> $ sudo mount.cifs //192.168.1.254/share /mnt -ouser=route_account,vers=2.0
> 
> 
> vers=2.0 might not be necessary for you if your router supports more modern
> versions of smb or if you are not running a newish kernel that defaults to 3.0
> 
> man mount.cifs 
> 
> The default since v4.13.5 is for the client and server to negotiate the highest
> possible version greater than or equal to 2.1. In kernels prior to v4.13, the
> default was 1.0. For kernels between v4.13 and v4.13.5 the default is 3.0.
> 
> Mark
>> 
>>> 
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