smb mounts to 2000xp box.

[igueths at attbi.com]

Hi all. I do not have shares that I have to use at the 
moment, however I might consider creating one or two on 
my laptop. Yeah I am curious as to what those escapes 
do. Going to have to check out the manpage (s) when I 
get a chance. 
> 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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