Mount Windows drive share on RHEL5 By admin on April 24, 2009 in Linux, RedHat RHEL5 replaced the old smbmount command with mount.cifs so to mount a shared Windows drive do something like: mount -t cifs //servername/sharename /mnt/mountpoint \ -o username=myusername,password=mypassword 12 mount -t cifs //servername/sharename /mnt/mountpoint \ -o username=myusername,password=mypassword Related posts: Force user to change password on first login NFS Setup