I am sorry to post such a horrible question, but here is my scenario:

I am running Redhat 9 and want to mount (not sure if that is the correct term) a drive that will be used concurrently between my XP machine and my Linux box.

I have my network up in the sense that I can ping each machine from each other and both can hit my gateway, both are sharing my cable modem etc and I think I am fairly close.

The drive in question is an NTFS formated USB 2.0 drive which I have setup for network sharing. Do I have to make a partition on this drive in FAT to make this possible, and if so, what is the command I use to "map" the drive on the Linux machine?

I know this is probably the worst newbie question, but I am anxious learn whatever I can to make the transition out of the Windblows world to the Linux world.

Many thanks

Bernard
bernard@bluecanine.com
subskipper@msn.com

Try
you need to install the Samba package if you don't have it.

Ok, this is what I tried

I get the mount point is not available. I don't understand what is supposed to follow the share name? When you say path/to/mountpoint do you mean I have to give it a name like dev/hda5 or something like that ?

The machine name is scuba1
the share name is 100gb

suggestions? Thanks for your continued help!

Bernard

/path/to/mountpoint

this is the location in your system where all the files cab be accessed

do the


mkdir /mnt/windowsShare

This will make a directory called windowsShare under the direcotry mnt. You only have to do this once

then

mount -t smbfs -o username=blah,password=blah //scuba1/100gb /mnt/windowsShare


now you will be able to go into the directory /mnt/windowsShare and access all the files

Thanks in advance everyone,

I have done what everyone says, but I get the following error:

Mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on //sucba1/linux or too many mounted file systems.


I realized that the system would not connect to the share I created because it was NTFS. So I created a simple 2GB FAT partition and named the share linux.

When I type the command (after creating the mount point mnt/windowsshare)

mount -t smbfs -o username=blah,password=blah //scuba1/linux /mnt/windowsShare

thats when I get the error message as described above.

?????

Thanks

Bernard

The local filesystem on the file server is irrelevent, make sure you have the Samba package installed(see if "rpm -qa | grep -i samba" returns anything)

Thanks all, it works now!

I appreciate your help Demonbane and Jax8

Thanks!

Bernard

I am trying to so the same: I have typed
mount -t smbfs -o username=***,password=*** //server/videos /mnt/server
It returns 5721: connection to server failed

I know for a fact that the server is setup OK. Also I do have the smb rpm installed. I tried that rpm command as mentioned previously. Any ideas?

did you make an entry in /etc/hosts as to the ip address of the server? ie

the hosts file does the address to name resoltion.

linux_terror

That worked. Thanks a lot.


How do you unmount that on command line?

Here's how you'd unmount it.

btw.....Glad that worked for ya.


linux_terror

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In the game of life it takes a root prompt to really foul up.

Thanks, Isnt' there a way to get it in my fstab file so it will remound on each boot?

Here ya go!

put entry like this in /etc/fstab...
And you may want to secure your fstab file permisssions as you will have a plain text password in it now

Enjoy,

linux_terror

I was mounting an NTFS network resource with fedora core1. I installed core2 and the command just sits there. When I shutdown the system it will set there and repeatedly timeout and retry when attempting to unmount the resource.

The command I am using is the same as above:
mount -t smbfs -o username=***,password=*** //server/videos /mnt/server

Is it possible that the firewall is blocking this? I didn't install it on core1, but did on core2. If so, how do I work with the firewall?