Well I can do the mount by hand like so Mount //marvin/mp3 /home/mp3 that works and I can read the files from the other machine. What I would like to do is make that process automatic so I don't have to type it every time the computer re-boots. I have looked at the samba file and swat but most of this referrs to doing things the other way letting people see the folders on a linux box in windows.Thanks Marv Join Lorie and Marvin on www.interactive.acbradio.org for the Folk connection Saturdays from 18 to 20 GMT. -----Original Message----- From: speakup-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:speakup-bounces at braille.uwo.ca] On Behalf Of Steve Holmes Sent: Tuesday, April 18, 2006 2:42 PM To: speakup at braille.uwo.ca Subject: Re: Mounting windows folders as drives -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: RIPEMD160 That could be a good point. Actually, if network mounting is in order, it should be smbmount instead. If you use mount, you would have to specify a mount type like smbfs or something. If mount can be used with samba now, then that's something new I didn't know. Yes, I was interpreting the original question as if it were on the same machine. On Tue, Apr 18, 2006 at 12:50:30PM -0500, Thomas Stivers wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: RIPEMD160 > > On Mon, Apr 17, 2006 at 08:14:57 PM -0700, Steve Holmes wrote: > > Assuming your windows partition is a FAT 32 as opposed to FAT 16, > > use a mount command like this: > > mount -t vfat /dev/hda3 /mnt/mp3 > > Note: I assumed your windows partition was located on /dev/hda3 and > > a subdirectory of mp3 exists under the /mnt directory. Look over > > and read carefully the manpage for mount. It will tell you a lot. > > I may be misreading the original question, but I took it to mean > mounting a shared folder from another box. Steve's directions are good > for mounting a local drive or partition. If its a network share use > > mount //<box_name>/<share_Name> /mnt/something > > Where <box_name> and <share_name> are the names of the netbios name > and folder name on windows box respectively. > > This assumes you have samba installed and working and the share is > visible from the linux box of course. > > - -- > "Debugging is twice as hard as writing the code in the first place. > Therefore, if you write the code as cleverly as possible, you are, by > definition, not smart enough to debug it." - Brian W. Kernighan > > Thomas Stivers e-mail: stivers_t at tomass.dyndns.org > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- > Version: GnuPG v1.4.3 (GNU/Linux) > > iD8DBQFERSbl5JK61UXLur0RA5KCAJ4xxneTx6/LKAVFubwuztdXFIhMSwCeO/FL > gG8dFvPY7JulbjnBz1L+azw= > =R2d4 > -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup > > - -- HolmesGrown Solutions The best solutions for the best price! http://ld.net/?holmesgrown -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.7 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFERUEBWSjv55S0LfERA38RAJ41EjqVcPoVlqA3a+P9AP1CIuV2UQCg8Fsz vHDkenBXiz05ijz+Td/ZmDU= =oayF -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ Speakup mailing list Speakup at braille.uwo.ca http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup
