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I'm currently trying to mount a windows shared drive under linux. The machine is using windows 7 and by default it shares all windows drives if you login as an administrator. I've been able to login and list/copy/delete files via my android phone but I'm having a problem with mounting it on a server.

The command I'm trying:
mount -t smbfs -o username=MyUsername //10.0.0.2/$D /mnt/machine_1_d

I think the problem comes from the $ sign in $D. I just can't remember what was the fix for this. I'm sure it was something really simple but I can't find it on the net also.

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  • I think it should work if you just write the visible name instead of $D.
    – Khaled
    Apr 25, 2012 at 14:44
  • The name of the shared folder is $D (if that's what you meant) :)
    – tftd
    Apr 25, 2012 at 14:46
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    tftd, You might want to change the name of the question to "How to mount a windows administrative share on linux via samba" for the next guy to find it.
    – dc5553
    Apr 25, 2012 at 14:51
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    Don't admin shares (for drive letters) have the dollar after the letter? e.g. D$ ... Just seen your comment on another answer - perhaps you should state yours are a different way around ?
    – Smock
    Nov 13, 2019 at 12:24

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tftd,

try escaping the $ character with a \

mount -t smbfs -o username=MyUsername //10.0.0.2/D\$ /mnt/machine_1_d

dc

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  • Also it appears you can do it like this mount -t smbfs -o username=MyUsername "//10.0.0.2/$D" /mnt/machine_1_d. This also appears to be working properly. Thanks!
    – tftd
    Apr 25, 2012 at 14:57
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    @tftd I assume you meant '//10.0.0.2/$D' (with single quotes). Otherwise bash would resolve $D to an empty string. In other words, "//10.0.0.2/$D" would resolve to "//10.0.0.2/", unless you happened to have an environment variable called D.
    – Hubro
    Jun 15, 2018 at 2:17
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Administrative shares in Windows are named with the volume letter first, then the '$' symbol, not the other way around.

C: --> C$

D: --> D$

sudo mount -t smbfs -o username=graeme,domain=example //server.example.com/C$ /mnt/bla
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    Yes that's correct. In my case, though, it's the other way around. I don't know why. I guess the admin has done some custom settings or something...
    – tftd
    Apr 26, 2012 at 14:05
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My issue was related to: "mount error(13): Permission denied Refer to the mount.cifs(8) manual page (e.g. man mount.cifs)" For me the solution was adding key to regedit in Window. Below is my answer in other topic: https://serverfault.com/a/619963/237340

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    This was also my issue. I was so close to getting to my laptop Windows share from servers at work. Another day....
    – Avindra Goolcharan
    Nov 21, 2014 at 19:49
  • Can set via PowerShell: Set-ItemProperty HKLM:\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\System\ -Name LocalAccountTokenFilterPolicy -Value 1
    – Greg Bray
    Oct 28, 2017 at 20:22
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I would add a line for that purpose to /etc/fstab file:

//10.0.0.2/d$/ /mnt/documents cifs noserverino,rw,iocharset=utf8,password=xxxxxxxxxx,username=user_with_administrative_rights,domain=my_windows_domain 0 0

After saving changes to this file, mount the file system by means of the command mount -a.

In this case the option rw allows the directory to be read-write, otherwise it should have the option ro.

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