Mount a network shared drive on Linux

Overview In this post we will go through the process on how to mount a network shared drive on Linux.The procedure is executed on Debian and Ubuntu distros using the cifs-utils and for CentOS as well. With this method, not only you can mount a network shared drive, you can also use this method to mount other network shared locations(network shared folders or other network shares). I have a network shared storage server, the server has HDDs in RAID configuration and the storage drives are shared over the network, I am going to use this setup as an example....

December 19, 2023 · 4 min · 822 words · MarkoN

Setup NFS server on Debian 10/11[NFS share mount]

How to setup NFS server on Debian 10[NFS share mount] Overview In this post, we’ll walk you through a process how to setup NFS server on Debian 10 and the process is same for Debian 11. Earlier on this site, we covered the other method as well where we showed the process mounting the network shared drive on Linux, but with this method we used cifs-utils tools(LINK). The principle behind this process is basically the same - mount a network shared folder or drive from another machine and access it via local network....

April 8, 2020 · 7 min · 1364 words · MarkoN