smb mounts to 2000xp box.

[Keith Watson]

Hello,

Ok, so here's my two cents worth. Deja vu. I was recently
interested in recreating on winblows file system to another.
Winblows tools are few and far between for this task, so I turned
to our favorite os. Turns out the samba will allow you to mount a
winblows share with no difficulties. The tools are smbclient,
smbmount, and smbumount.

First chect to see if the winblows box has a share:

smbclient -L server  ;where server is the name of your win box.

This will give you a list of available shares. If its not there
you gotta create it.

Next, create a mount point directory. Something like 

mkdir /winblows

Then use the following.

smbmount "\\\\server\\share" /winblows -o username=john

You can check out the list of options, but i left off the
password=foobar and it prompted me for one. Also note the quotes
and number of back slashes. The quotes were necessary for me
because my winblows share had a space in the name. The number of
back slashes has something to do with escape sequences. Someone
want to clarify that for me? Anyway, once I ran this command I
was able to traverse the winblows share from my linux box. Matter
of fact I just go done rsyncing about 110 gig of data from one
share to another. Sweet!

Hope this helps.


On 10:09 AM, Paul Migliorelli (+1 3 0 3 5 4 3 2 3 1 1) wrote:
> Yes, you got it.  I'm wanting it to see the file systems that way.
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