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Mounting a CIFS File System to ECSs (Windows)

After creating a file system, you need to mount the file system to ECSs so that they can share the file system.

This section uses Windows Server 2012 as an example to describe how to mount a CIFS file system.

An SFS Capacity-Oriented file system can support either the NFS or CIFS protocol.

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 File System Management.

    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.

Parent topic: Mount a File System