> Thanks for the info. I guess it's just me then ;) Well - we all start out knowing little to nothing ;) Anyway, I guess if you expected everything to look like it does in windows, I can see why you might get a little confused. > I am not familiar with SMB or Samba at all. Could you possibly > give me the guidelines for setting up an smbmount? I am not sure > how the whole process works ... Easiest way is: man smbmount If you already know how to use a windows share without using smbmount (ie. using smbclient) then it's not much of a difference. Actually, you could mount using "mount" instead of smbmount, but smbmount makes it easy to do non-root mounts of shares. But it doesn't prevent you from using /etc/fstab to specify permanent smb mount points. If you don't use PDC functionality, and just have public accessible shares, smbmount is straight forward: smbmount //server/share /mnt/point. However, if you need to specify usernames etc. you solve that either using smbusers or using the -o parameters (which you'll find in the man page). Best Regards Peter Larsen > On Thu, 2003-10-16 at 20:32, Peter Larsen wrote: > > > It seems as though the various programs I use to view/edit > > > files, such as Gedit or Vi, are not able to view or access files > > > at SMB locations. Can anyone recommend a good editor that can > > > both view and edit text files and RTF files at SMB locations? > > > > Hmmm - I access several windows networks from several of my linux boxes, and > > never saw that problem? What I do is smbmount the shares I need, and from > > then on, I never think of the data/files being on a windows network, linux > > or anything else. It's just a cd away, and all my programs sees the files as > > "usual". > > > > Only windows (to my knowledge) has the idea of you needing to specify the > > physical aspect of a resource location. I like the way Unix has done this > > from the get-go - you don't care if your data is on one huge disk, several > > small ones, networked, memory based etc. - they are all part of the same > > logical structure. It's up to the drivers to find out what to do - not the > > application developer/user. > > > > Best Regards > > Peter Larsen -- Psyche-list mailing list Psyche-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/psyche-list
