Mounting windows folders as folders on linux box.

[Chris Norman]

I'm not sure what distro you're using, but you could eithr use rc.local, or 
probably a better idea is to use /etc/fstab.

HTH,

Chris Norman
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From: "Marvin Rush" <w5mrr at sbcglobal.net>
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Subject: RE: Mounting windows folders as folders on linux box.


> Well I can do the mount by hand like so
>
> Mount //marvin/mp3 /home/mp3 that works and I can read the files from the
> other machine. What I would like to do is make that process automatic so I
> don't have to type it every time the computer re-boots. I have looked at 
> the
> samba file and swat but most of this referrs to doing things the other way
> letting people see the folders on a linux box in windows.Thanks Marv
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> That could be a good point.  Actually, if network mounting is in order, it
> should be smbmount instead.  If you use mount, you would have to specify a
> mount type like smbfs or something.  If mount can be used with samba now,
> then that's something new I didn't know.  Yes, I was interpreting the
> original question as if it were on the same machine.
>
> On Tue, Apr 18, 2006 at 12:50:30PM -0500, Thomas Stivers wrote:
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>> On Mon, Apr 17, 2006 at 08:14:57 PM -0700, Steve Holmes wrote:
>> > Assuming your windows partition is a FAT 32 as opposed to FAT 16,
>> > use a mount command like this:
>> > mount -t vfat /dev/hda3 /mnt/mp3
>> > Note: I assumed your windows partition was located on /dev/hda3 and
>> > a subdirectory of mp3 exists under the /mnt directory.  Look over
>> > and read carefully the manpage for mount.  It will tell you a lot.
>>
>> I may be misreading the original question, but I took it to mean
>> mounting a shared folder from another box. Steve's directions are good
>> for mounting a local drive or partition. If its a network share use
>>
>> mount //<box_name>/<share_Name> /mnt/something
>>
>> Where <box_name> and <share_name> are the names of the netbios name
>> and folder name on windows box respectively.
>>
>> This assumes you have samba installed and working and the share is
>> visible from the linux box of course.
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