Mounting a CIFS File System to ECSs (Windows)

Prerequisites

• You have created a file system and have obtained the mount point of the file system.
• At least one ECS that belongs to the same VPC as the file system exists.
• The IP address of the DNS server for resolving the domain names of the file systems has been configured on the ECSs. For details, see Configuring DNS.
• You need to mount the file system as user Administrator. You cannot switch to another user to mount the file system.

Limitations and Constraints

CIFS file systems cannot be mounted to Linux ECSs.

Procedure

1. Go to the ECS console and log in to the ECS running Windows Server 2012.
2. Click Start, right-click Computer, and choose Map network drive.
3. In the dialog box that is displayed, enter the mount point of the file system, specifically, \\File system domain name\Path. See Figure 1.

   Table 1 Variable description

   Variable	Description
   File system domain name	Obtain the file system domain name from the file system mount point. For details about how to obtain the file system domain name, see Viewing a File System.
   Path	The format is share-xxxxxxxx, where x is a digit or letter.

   Figure 1 Entering the mount point
   

4. Click Finish.
5. After the file system is mounted successfully, you can view the mounted file system on the This PC page.

   If the mounting fails or times out, rectify the fault by referring to Troubleshooting.