how can i access a network drive in pclinuxos

baronobeefdip · 09-19-2009, 01:56 PM

well the majority of the systems at my school run on windows (duh) and each student has their own network drive nobody has access to each others drive, but all of the systems accesses these drives with the use of novell client and theres a specific name for each drive and password, plus the network tree has a certain name to, how do i access these drives in pclinuxos by including usernames and password to access these drives based on the username and password that is typed in

paulsm4 · 09-19-2009, 02:26 PM

The answer, of course, is "samba".

Here are a couple of links:

http://linuxgator.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=15&t=879

http://www.dedoimedo.com/computers/i...linuxos_4.html

http://www.pclinuxos.com/wiki/index.php/Main_Page

'Hope that helps .. PSM

PS:
There might be issues with your particular network configuration (for example, when you say "Novell client", you might actually have a "Novell Netware" client, as unlikely as that might be...).

But please: read the links I gave you, and focus on trying to see a Windows share. Any share. Post back with any specific errors/problems you might face.

This is the True Path to happiness - I promise.

Good luck!

baronobeefdip · 09-19-2009, 03:39 PM

will this allow me to access my drive on the network with the username and password

baronobeefdip · 09-21-2009, 07:57 AM

so the way i do it is, go into control panel, select the tab on the left that says "network sharing" click on it and select "access windows (smb) shared drives and directories" then kinda figure it out from there, if i require anymore help i will be posting in the thread some more

thanks for the help everyone

baronobeefdip

someone tell me if i'm right