CifsMount

CifsMount is a lightweight .NET library that allows you to automatically mount shared Windows folders on Linux using the cifs-utils

You can install CifsMount with NuGet:

Install-Package CifsMount

Requirements

1. Install cifs-utils dependency sudo apt -y install cifs-utils
2. Disable the password verification prompt for mount and umount commands for the user. For example, test user (change for your user!) sudo bash -c 'cat >> /etc/sudoers <<< "test ALL=(ALL) NOPASSWD: /usr/bin/mount, /usr/bin/umount"'
3. Create a directory to mount. Grant write permissions sudo mkdir -p /mnt/my_mount sudo chown test:test -R /mnt/my_mount

Usage

1. Create mount options and define folders
2. Create CifsMountClient and Mount() target folder

Example

var shareDirectory = "//server123.domain.xyz/RootFolder/SubFolder"; // Windows shared folder var targetDirectory = "/mnt/my_mount/"; // Local mounted directory var options = new CifsMountOptions("user", "password", "domain.xyz") { IsPersistence = false, Arguments = new []{ "rw" } }; using (var cifsClient = new CifsMountClient(options)) using (var cifsMounted = cifsClient.Mount(shareDirectory, targetDirectory)) { Console.WriteLine(cifsMounted.Directory.Exists); // Do something with 'cifsMounted.Directory' like the plain DirectoryInfo type }