smb mounts to 2000xp box.

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You should be aware that putting your password on the command line makes it visible to anyone else on your machine who happens to run ps.
Greg


On Sun, Aug 11, 2002 at 11:46:23PM -0400, Patrick Turnage wrote:
> Hi
> To mount from the linux box to the windows machine
> make a directory in your root or whereever you want like
> /smb
> mkdir /smb
> then add an entry to your /etc/hosts like this
> ip name
> 1.2.3.4 name
> so name was 1.2.3.4
> then a command such as this should work
> mount -t smbfs -o username=username,password=password //name/share /smb
> where user is the username, password, is the password, name is the computer
> name, and share is the area of your windows computer being shared.
> Sometimes I get an error like 34599 called name not present, but it still
> loads in to the diectory tree..
>  
> To do the reverse make sure your samba.conf is configured correctly. 
> Then load the smbd and nmbd deamons from where ever your distro loads them
> either from a boot init file, or inetd.conf, load it up and see if it
> works,  you may have to wait 10 to 12 minutes to ensure you are able to
> browse the network.. through network naighborhood.. I think smbd, controls
> access to the resources and nmbd responds to netbui or netbios comands,
> like broadcasts etc.. soI think both must be loaded to browse the network
> in network naighborhood.. 
> as yo said to open a share do
> start, run and
> \\name\share
> or \\name to get a list of shares on a particular host.
> 
> 
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