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Raspberry PI – accessing your Windows shares

Raspberry PI – accessing your Windows shares

  • cif, mount, raspberry pi, share, windows

logoHow to access your Windows shares from your Raspberry PI?

  • on your Raspberry PI create a folder for the share, for instance if you want to share your (shared) Windows dropbox folder:
    mkdir /home/pi/dropbox
  • mount the dropbox share on the new folder:
    sudo mount -t cifs -o username=windowsusername, password=windowspassword //192.168.1.xxx/dropbox /home/pi/dropbox

If you want to mount that share automatically on boot, add the following line to the file /etc/fstab

  • open the file for editing:
    sudo nano /etc/fstab
  • add the following line:
    //192.168.1.xxx/dropbox /home/pi/dropbox cifs user=windowsusername,pass=windowspassword,_netdev 0,0

windowsusername: username for the windows machine
windowspassword: password for the windows machine
192.168.1.xxx: IP-address of the windows machine
192.168.1.xxx/dropbox: IP-address plus the name of the share on the Windows server

Good luck!

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