Centos – Mount Windows share via CIFS in CentOS not working (but smbclient does)

Just to map a network share directory you would use this command:

net use \\Server\ShareName\Directory

This mapping would:

• not be persistent
• would have to be established and authenticated at user login
• you would access the share using the UNC path, and not a local drive letter

If you want to access the network share through a location on your local C: drive, you'll want to set up a symbolic link:

mklink /d  C:\Folder\ShareName \\Server\ShareName\Directory

Now when you navigate to C:\Folder\Share you'll see the contents of \\\Server\Sharename\Directory. You'll still need to provide authentication for the resource with something like net use (or just be logged into a domain account on a domain system that has access) otherwise the link will probably error out angrily.

Look at the "noperm" mount option. Also you may wish to consider looking at the "unix extensions" option on the server too.