Mount a Windows share on Linux with Samba

This article describes how to set up a share from a Linux to a Windows. Samba has to be installed.
 

To test if your Linux machine sees the shares on the Windows : 

smbclient -L <windows-box> -U <username> 

 
Make a directoy for the mountpoint: 

mkdir /mnt/<name-of-mount-point> 

 
Mount the share: 

mount -t smbfs -o username=<username>,password=<password> //<win-box>/<share> /mnt/<name-of-mountpoint> Note: The syntax -username=<username>,password=<password> saves the password. 
  
Create a symbolic link to the mounted drive: ln -s /mnt/<name-of-mount-point> /<path-of-symlink>