Steve and everyone else, thanks for your help with my samba problem. I've sorted it out to a point where I can at least brows the drives on the other machine. Shaun.. "Has anyone ever tasted an "END"? Are they really bitter?" EMAIL: shauno at goanna.net.au ICQ: 76958435 YAHOO ID: blindman01_2000 IRC NICK/SERVER: |3|1ndm4n on #aussiefriends on www.jong.com:6667 On Thu, 24 May 2001, Holmes, Steve wrote: > a shorter version of this is to use the smbmount command like this: > smbmount //host/sharename /mountpoint > This only works with recent kernels with smbfs and recent version of samba. > > -----Original Message----- > From: Geoff Shang [mailto:gshang at uq.net.au] > Sent: Wednesday, May 23, 2001 1:23 PM > To: speakup at braille.uwo.ca > Subject: Re: samba problem. > > > Hi: > > I realise you're going about doing a much more complicated samba setup than > I use, but it might be worth telling what I did. > > I only really want to read windows shares from linux, as I have no real > need to go the other way. I just set the shares up in windows, then used > the mount command as per normal to mount it. Mount calls smbmount in order > to achieve this. The syntax for mounting smb shares is: > > mount -t smbfs //host/sharename /mountpoint > > The mount procedure will prompt you for the password. > > So for example, I mount my primary windows drive as follows: > > mount -t smbfs //picard/c /windows/c > > Where picard is the name of the windows box, c is the sharename on the > windows box, and /windows/c is the mount point (this last one could just as > easily be /mnt or whatever). > > Geoff. > > > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup >
