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 |
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Join your SMB client to an Active Directory (AD) domain. |
You can use the |
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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. |
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Mount an SMB share on a directory that you own. |
Use the |
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View the list of SMB shares that are mounted on the system. |
View the list of mounted SMB shares. |
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Unmount an SMB share from a directory that you own. |
When you no longer need access to an SMB share, you can unmount it. |
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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. |
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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. |
Configuring the PAM Module to Store an SMB Persistent Password |
Delete a persistent password. |
If you no longer want to store a persistent password, delete it. |