Mounting Windows Share on Ubuntu 14.04

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First of all need to install cifs on ubuntu:

$ sudo apt-get install cifs-utils

 

After successful installation, we can mount windows share from command line:

$ sudo mount //WINSRV/SHARE -t cifs -o uid=1000,gid=1000,username=winuser /mnt/path

where ‘winuser’ is the windows domain user, and optionally we can supply domain using domain=windomain with options.

 

to find out linux user’s uid and gid use:

$ id