i'm trying to mount a windows drive on my redhat machine. it works fine when i mount like this:

mount -t smbfs \\\\Computer\\ShareName /mnt/mntpnt

but when i try and mount a folder within the share, it dosen't work:

mount -t smbfs \\\\Computer\\ShareName\\folder

is it possible to mount a folder within a share? or am i just going to need to make a share on my windows machine for every folder i want to mount?

did you try:

mount -t smbfs //computer/folder


Leave out the "ShareName" part since the "folder" is shared anyway..

that's not really what i'm getting at... what i want to do is mount a folder within a share. for example, my windows folders look like this:

c:\mp3s\rock\

i have the mp3s folder shared, but want to mount the rock folder on my linux machine, i don't want the entire mp3s folder mounted, just the rock folder. but my windows shares appear like this:

\\Computer\\mp3s

see what i'm getting at? i want to mount a folder underneath that share... but linux returns an error says the share does not exist.

that's what I was trying to say.....


Is the rock folder shared as well?? If not, share it then go

\\Computer\\rock

instead of

\\Computer\\mp3s


it "should" work....

mount -t smbfs //computer_name/share /mnt/mount point

Mine is like this mount -t smbfs /winxp/f /mnt/disk

winxp is my windows box name, the windows IP address will work in place of the computer name, f is the drive or share I'm mounting, it could also be a folder share, and /mnt/disk is my Linux mount point.

ok, that's what i'm getting at though. i DON'T want to share the rock folder. i have quite a few subfolders of my initial share that i would like to mount, but it just seems a little tedious to have to share every single folder... not to mention inefficient.

I connected to shared subfolder without sharing the root folder like this:

I created a folder on my C:\ dirve and called it "share", my C:\ is not shared.

To mount the folder "share" I did this:

mount -t smbfs //winxp/share /mnt/disk

This gave me access to only the folder "share" not the rest of C:\ drive.
Hope this helps

I've tried mounting a WIndows partition on a Windows ME box with full access to the fiolder using this command:

mount -t smbfs //windows/drive /mnt/win
and this one
mount -t smbfs ////windows/drive /mnt/win

with this first one command i get these errors:

session request to WINDOWS failed
session request to *SMBSERVER failed
SMB connection failed

and the second one:

session request to failed
SMB connection failed

ok... apparantly, no one understands what i'm getting at. so let me try to explain AGAIN.

i have a folder shared on my win2k machine like this:

\\ComputerName\ShareName

under this directory structure, i have a certain number of folders beneath the ShareName. i want to mount these other folders to my linux machine WITHOUT specifically sharing them.

i have no problem mounting ShareName using this command:

mount -t smbfs -o username=user,password=pw \\\\ComputerName\\ShareName /mnt/mntpoint

HOWEVER, if i want to mount a directory within the share, it does not work:

mount -t smbfs -o username=user,password=pw \\\\ComputerName\\ShareName\\SubDirectory /mnt/mntpoint

so basically, i want to mount SubDirectory without sharing it (since i have a large number of sub directories under that share, and sharing them all is more work than it needs to be, and quite inefficient)