This article describes how to set up a share from a Linux box to a Windows box. Samba has to be installed.

To test if your Linux machine sees the shares on the Windows box:

smbclient -L <windows-box> -U <username>

1. Make a directoy for the mountpoint:

   mkdir /mnt/<name-of-mount-point>

2. Mount the share:

   mount -t smbfs -o username=<username>, password=<password> //<win-box>/<share> /mnt/<name-of-mountpoint>

Note: The syntax -username=<username>,password=<password> saves the password.

3. Create a symbolic link to the mounted drive:

   ln -s /mnt/<name-of-mount-point> /<path-of-symlink>

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