You need to know a login and password for the box. The machine name as found on the win box by: right click "my computer" / properties / network identification. I think you can use an IP address instead of the name. The share name of whatever you are trying to mount. linux syntax to mount on /mnt/winbox is: mount -t smbfs //windowsid/sharename /mnt/winbox -o username=winlogin,password=apassword,ro The ,ro is make it read only. You can leave that off for read/write. John Julian -----Original Message----- From: linux-admin-owner@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:linux-admin-owner@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Kirkwood, David A Sent: Wednesday, September 01, 2004 3:59 PM To: 'Linux Mail List' Subject: smbmount I have a linux system that, unfortunately lives in a mostly microsoft world. I have samba enabled and can share my disks out with all the proper permissions etc just fine. However, on occassion I need files from a windows server. The documentation for smbmount seems to indicate that I can connect to the windows system if I know some wins information such as the machine ID. How do I find this if I only know th ip, or better still what is the syntax of the command I need to execute on the linux system. The remote system is a windows server, but I don't know the version of the O/S. As always, all help is appreciated. Dave - : send the line "unsubscribe linux-admin" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html - : send the line "unsubscribe linux-admin" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
