How to connect to a shared folder in Linux?

1 year ago
Isabella Edwards
1 minute

There are several ways to connect to a shared folder in Linux.

  1. To mount a shared folder using the command line, you can manually do so with the mount command. First, create a local directory as the mount point, and then use the mount command to specify the paths of the shared folder and the mount point. For example:
sudo mkdir /mnt/share
sudo mount -t cifs //server/share /mnt/share -o username=your_username,password=your_password
  1. To connect and operate shared folders, you can utilize the smbclient command, which is a Samba client tool. You can connect to a shared folder using the following command.
smbclient //server/share -U your_username
  1. Utilizing GUI tools: Many Linux distributions come with graphical tools that can be used to connect to shared folders, such as Nautilus file manager or Caja file manager. Within the file manager, you can simply input the address of the shared folder and provide your username and password to connect.

Before connecting to a shared folder, make sure the Samba client tool is installed on the local machine, regardless of the method used. This is necessary to connect to Windows shared folders.

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