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Managing SMB File Sharing and Windows Interoperability in Oracle® Solaris 11.3

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Updated: December 2017
 
 

Managing SMB Mounts in Your Local Environment

The following table points to the tasks that a regular user can perform to manage SMB mounts.

Task
Description
For Instructions
Join your SMB client to an Active Directory (AD) domain.
You can use the kclient command to join your SMB client to an AD domain.
Find the shares that are available on an SMB server in your domain.
View the shares from a particular SMB server, which you can mount on a directory that you own.
Mount an SMB share on a directory that you own.
Use the mount command to mount the share on a mount point that you own.
View the list of SMB shares that are mounted on the system.
View the list of mounted SMB shares.
Unmount an SMB share from a directory that you own.
When you no longer need access to an SMB share, you can unmount it.
Store a persistent password to be used for authentication.
When you store a persistent password, you can bypass the manual authentication required each time that you want to mount a share from the specified server.
Use a PAM module to store a persistent password to be used for authentication.
Use this optional functionality only in environments that do not run AD or Kerberos but which synchronize passwords between Oracle Solaris clients and their SMB servers.
Delete a persistent password.
If you no longer want to store a persistent password, delete it.