Hi all. I do not have shares that I have to use at the moment, however I might consider creating one or two on my laptop. Yeah I am curious as to what those escapes do. Going to have to check out the manpage (s) when I get a chance. > Hello, > > Ok, so here's my two cents worth. Deja vu. I was recently > interested in recreating on winblows file system to another. > Winblows tools are few and far between for this task, so I turned > to our favorite os. Turns out the samba will allow you to mount a > winblows share with no difficulties. The tools are smbclient, > smbmount, and smbumount. > > First chect to see if the winblows box has a share: > > smbclient -L server ;where server is the name of your win box. > > This will give you a list of available shares. If its not there > you gotta create it. > > Next, create a mount point directory. Something like > > mkdir /winblows > > Then use the following. > > smbmount "\\\\server\\share" /winblows -o username=john > > You can check out the list of options, but i left off the > password=foobar and it prompted me for one. Also note the quotes > and number of back slashes. The quotes were necessary for me > because my winblows share had a space in the name. The number of > back slashes has something to do with escape sequences. Someone > want to clarify that for me? Anyway, once I ran this command I > was able to traverse the winblows share from my linux box. Matter > of fact I just go done rsyncing about 110 gig of data from one > share to another. Sweet! > > Hope this helps. > > > On 10:09 AM, Paul Migliorelli (+1 3 0 3 5 4 3 2 3 1 1) wrote: > > Yes, you got it. I'm wanting it to see the file systems that way. > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Speakup mailing list > > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup > > -- > Keith Watson > kwatson at smed.2y.net > > Among the major impediments to discovery are not the ignorant > but those with illusions of knowledge. - B. Alan Wallace > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup
