John: You can do better than ftp type interfacing. You can mount the smb share in a directory. Here's my mount command: I put mine in a bash script: cd /home/janina mount.smbfs //server/janina$ h -o username=janina,password="password",uid=500,gid=500,iocharset=iso8859-1 mount.smbfs //server/common g -o username=janina,password="password",uid=500,gid=500,iocharset=iso8859-1 cd - On Mon, 29 Apr 2002, John J. Boyer wrote: > Hello, > Thanks to everone who replied to my question about installing Samba last > week. I have now managed to install it from the Redhat 7.1 CD's, and will > install 7.2 or update from their Web site when this is working. > The rest of the machines in our office are running Windows 98 SE. No > password is requiredd for one machine to access another. > Smbclient works on one of them, called "beans." If I type > smbclient -L beans > There is a brief wait, then it asks for a passwork. I press enter as the > man page instructs, and get a list of things on beans, including the hard > drive and printer. The command then terminates. > I have tried a number of different ways to get the prompt that would allow > smbclient to operate like ftp, but it always gives either a list or an > error message and then terminates. > Another machine on our network is called "welcome." smbclient always says > that the connection failed. > Thanks for any suggestions. > John > > > -- Janina Sajka, Director Technology Research and Development Governmental Relations Group American Foundation for the Blind (AFB) Email: janina@afb.net Phone: (202) 408-8175 Chair, Accessibility SIG Open Electronic Book Forum (OEBF) http://www.openebook.org