Citrix - Access CIFS shares in XenServer

There’s actually a simpler way to read and write to an NTFS partition from XenServer, but you’ll need to plug your USB drive into a Windows machine and share it. Once shared, and knowing the share name, and the IP address of your Windows machine, you can use the following example mount commands:

mount //192.168.1.13/ShareName /mnt

or
mount //192.168.1.13/Sharename /mnt -o username=olivierw

You may have to supply a password for your share, and you may have to supply an alternate user name to the CIFS service (other than the default ‘root’ user). By-the-way, this is the method that XenServer itself uses when you create an ISO CIFS Storage Repository in XenCenter.

posted by: Myke Reinhold
source: Homerun Networks & Citrix

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