samba problem.

[Shaun Oliver]

Steve and everyone else, thanks for your help with my samba problem.
I've sorted it out to a point where I can at least brows the drives on the
other machine.


Shaun..
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On Thu, 24 May 2001, Holmes, Steve wrote:

> a shorter version of this is to use the smbmount command like this:
> smbmount //host/sharename /mountpoint
> This only works with recent kernels with smbfs and recent version of samba.
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Geoff Shang [mailto:gshang at uq.net.au]
> Sent: Wednesday, May 23, 2001 1:23 PM
> To: speakup at braille.uwo.ca
> Subject: Re: samba problem.
> 
> 
> Hi:
> 
> I realise you're going about doing a much more complicated samba setup than
> I use, but it might be worth telling what I did.
> 
> I only really want to read windows shares from linux, as I have no real
> need to go the other way.  I just set the shares up in windows, then used
> the mount command as per normal to mount it.  Mount calls smbmount in order
> to achieve this.  The syntax for mounting smb shares is:
> 
> mount -t smbfs //host/sharename /mountpoint
> 
> The mount procedure will prompt you for the password.
> 
> So for example, I mount my primary windows drive as follows:
> 
> mount -t smbfs //picard/c /windows/c
> 
> Where picard is the name of the windows box, c is the sharename on the
> windows box, and /windows/c is the mount point (this last one could just as
> easily be /mnt or whatever).
> 
> Geoff.
> 
> 
> 
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