Mounting a CIFS File System to ECSs (Windows)

After creating a file system, you need to mount it 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 use either NFS or CIFS. It cannot use both protocols.

Prerequisites

You have created a file system and have obtained its mount point.
At least one ECS that is in the same VPC as the file system is available.
The IP address of the DNS server for resolving the file system domain name 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.

Notes and Constraints

CIFS file systems cannot be mounted to Linux ECSs.

SFS Capacity-Oriented file systems are now sold out. Use this type of mount carefully.

Procedure

Go to the ECS console and log in to the ECS running Windows Server 2012.
Click Start, right-click Computer, and choose Map network drive.

In the dialog box that is displayed, enter the mount point of the file system, specifically, \\File system domain name\Path, as shown in 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, see Viewing a File System.
Path	The format is share-xxxxxxxx, where x is a digit or letter.

Figure 1 Entering the mount point

Click Finish.
After the file system is mounted successfully, view the mounted file system in the This PC window.

If the mount fails or times out, it may be that guest access to CIFS file systems is blocked or disabled by Windows. Rectify the fault by referring to Troubleshooting.