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I do things the easiest way that gets the job done.  Someone asked me recently about mounting a shared windows drive in Linux from bash.  They stated they normally mount it through dolphin using:

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smb://username:password@ip_address/SHARED_DRIVE

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That works until you need to copy files via rsync or some other bash method.  The solution is actually very simple:

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mount -t cifs //ip_address/SHARED_DRIVE /mnt/directory -o user=username,password=user_password_on_windows_share,uid=500,gid=500

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Just be sure you replace uid=500 with the users id in linux and gid=500 with the users group id in linux in order to be able to write files/directories with the proper permissions.  Of course the mount directory, /mnt/directory, also must exist.

If you get an error about “mount error(12): Cannot Allocate Memory

the fix is:

Edit the windows registry

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Set “HKLM\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Session Manager\Memory Management\LargeSystemCache” to “1″.

Set “HKLM\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\LanmanServer\Parameters\Size” to “3″.

Restart the “server” service.

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