The default behaviour for mount.cifs is leaving the mounted share unsecured

For Centos:

# yum install samba-client samba-common cifs-utils

For Ubuntu:

# sudo apt-get install cifs-utils samba-common system-config-samba samba winbind

Create a local mount point directory, for example:

# mkdir /mnt/windows

Example Windows share detail is:

Remote Windows machine ip address is 192.168.1.9
share name : storage-photo
username: pion
password: my_password

# mount.cifs //192.168.1.9/storage-photo /mnt/windows-storage -o rw,user=pion,pass=my_password,dom=domain.local,vers=3.0

If you want to auto mount on boot, edit /etc/fstab and add the following mount command:

//192.168.1.9/storage-photo /mnt/windows-storage cifs rw,user=pion,pass=my_password,dom=domain.local,vers=3.0

show map

df -h

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This is how we mount storage box using cifs and keep the cradentials on /root directory.