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Old 04-16-2005, 06:16 AM   #1
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Thumbs up *** SOLVED *** How can I mount a Windows XP shared folder?


Hi.

I am using RedHat Linux 9.0 and I am trying to mount a Windows XP shared folder under linux.

My shared folder under XP is C:\shared (which I have enabled sharing for using "Sharing and Security" right-mouse-click menu under XP).

Under linux I have created the folder /mnt/xp and I have tried things like "mount <ip address>:/shared /mnt/xp" and "mount <machine name>:/shared /mnt/xp" and various permutations thereof, but nothing seems to work (the mount command just hangs forever).

Any ideas?? Am I going to need some kind of extra software running under windows to make the folder visible to Linux?

TIA, Mike.

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Old 04-16-2005, 06:31 AM   #2
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Hi,

what you need is samba : that's the Linux daemons & tools so as to use the Netbios protocols which is used by windows for file sharing, domain configuration etc...
I have no special link to give you, but you'll find tons of doc googleing...
 
Old 04-16-2005, 07:00 AM   #3
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Joy!

I have found the samba RPM on the net, so I will have a go with that!

Thanks,
Mike.
 
Old 09-28-2006, 06:36 AM   #4
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mlse,

in my debian, i did
Code:
apt-get install samba smbfs smbclient
i can't help you in the RPM installation, sorry

this tool, copy the files to this correct destination and run his config functions... then i had to fill it.

after this, i could access my windows' shares just typing:
Code:
mount -t smbfs -o username=xxx,password=yyyy //my_win/my_share /mnt/win
but, for a while, i just can do this as root... i'm trying to know how to do this as a normal user:
http://www.linuxquestions.org/questi...d.php?t=487379

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