Kevin Bradwick

Quick tip: Mounting CIFS volumes on Linux

I recently got myself a Netgear ReadyNAS duo. Amazing bit of kit, best purchase I’ve made in a while. OneI always run into is remembering how to mount a CIFS volume. Do do this, create a mount point (I choose /mnt/cifs but use whatever you want), then execute the following command;

$ mount -t cifs [server-address]/MyVolume /mnt/cifs -o username=[username],password=[password]

The volume will then be found at /mnt/cifs.