There are many ways that Although the main purpose of running a samba server is to share files on a Windows server, you can also install a Samba client on another Linux machine to share files as well. This lab will demonstrate how to setup a Samba client can connect to an SMB serveron your host machine, mount the samba share on a directory, and access files on the remote Linux machine (vm2).

#In a full installation (on your host Linux machine) you should not need to install the '''samba-client ''' application on your host, but if it is not present , then do soinstall that application.#You will also need to install the ''cifs-utils '' package to be able to mount the filesystem.:<br>'''yum install cifs-utils'''