How to mount a Windows share in Linux SMB/CIFS with Ansible? I'm going to show you a live Playbook with some simple Ansible code. I'm Luca Berton and welcome to today's episode of Ansible Pilot Ansible mount an SMB/CIFS filesystem - ansible.posix.mount - Control active and configured mount points Today we're talking about the Ansible module mount. The full name is `ansible.posix.mount`, which means that is part of the collection of modules "ansible.posix" to interact with POSIX platforms. The purpose of the module is to Control active and configured mount points. For Windows, use the `community.windows.win_mapped_drive` module instead. Parameters - path string - mount point (e.g. /mnt) - state string - mounted / unmounted / present / absent / remounted - src string - device or network volume - fstype string - ext4, xfs, iso9660, nfs, cifs, etc. - opts string - mount options This module has many parameters to perform any task. The only required are "path" and "state". The parameter "path" specifies the path to the mount point (e.g. /mnt/). The parameter "state" allows us to verify a specific state of the mount point. The options "mounted", "unmounted" and "remounted" change the device status. The "present" and "absent" options only change the `/etc/fstab` file. The `src` parameter specifies the device or network volume for NFS or SMB/CIFS. The `fstype` parameter specifies the filesystem type. For example: ext4, xfs, iso9660, nfs, cifs, etc. The `opts` parameter allows us to specify some mount options, that vary for each filesystem type. ## Playbook Let's jump in a real-life Ansible Playbook to mount an SMB/CIFS filesystem. code - mount_cifs.yml ```yaml --- - name: mount module Playbook hosts: all become: true vars: uri: "//windows-pc/share" username: "example@domain" password: "password" mountpoint: "/share" tasks: - name: utility present ansible.builtin.package: name: cifs-utils state: present - name: check mountpoint exist ansible.builtin.file: path: "{{ mountpoint }}" state: directory mode: '0755' owner: root group: root - name: Mount network share ansible.posix.mount: src: "{{ uri }}" path: "{{ mountpoint }}" fstype: cifs opts: 'username={{ username }},password={{ password }}' state: mounted ``` execution ```bash $ ansible-playbook -i Playbook/inventory mount\ drive/cifs.yml PLAY [mount module Playbook] ********************************************************************************* TASK [Gathering Facts] *********************************************************************************** ok: [demo.example.com] TASK [utility present] *********************************************************************************** changed: [demo.example.com] TASK [check mountpoint exist] **************************************************************************** changed: [demo.example.com] TASK