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Linux and Unix operating systems provide the mount command in order to attach file systems, disks, partitions, USB drive, cdrom, and even network shares into the local system. As a dynamic operation, we may also use the umount command in order to detach mounted devices. List Mounted Devices/File Systems Before mounting some devices or file … Read more
SMB is a popular protocol used to share files over the network. Even it is created for Windows operating systems it is supported by Linux distributions too. The smbclient command can be used to access Windows shares easily. By using smbclient the remote Windows shares can be listed, uploaded, deleted, or navigated easily. The smbclient … Read more
CIFS is a network-based file-sharing protocol which is used to share file, folders, and data over the network. The Windows, Linux, MacOSX, and other operating systems support the CIFS which makes it very useful to share files and folders over different operating systems. Both the SMB and CIFS protocols are developed by Microsoft and they … Read more