Linux - NewbieThis Linux forum is for members that are new to Linux.
Just starting out and have a question?
If it is not in the man pages or the how-to's this is the place!
Notices
Welcome to LinuxQuestions.org, a friendly and active Linux Community.
You are currently viewing LQ as a guest. By joining our community you will have the ability to post topics, receive our newsletter, use the advanced search, subscribe to threads and access many other special features. Registration is quick, simple and absolutely free. Join our community today!
Note that registered members see fewer ads, and ContentLink is completely disabled once you log in.
If you have any problems with the registration process or your account login, please contact us. If you need to reset your password, click here.
Having a problem logging in? Please visit this page to clear all LQ-related cookies.
Get a virtual cloud desktop with the Linux distro that you want in less than five minutes with Shells! With over 10 pre-installed distros to choose from, the worry-free installation life is here! Whether you are a digital nomad or just looking for flexibility, Shells can put your Linux machine on the device that you want to use.
Exclusive for LQ members, get up to 45% off per month. Click here for more info.
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.
mount -t smbfs -o username=blah,password=blah //scuba1/100gb
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
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.
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)
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?
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?
LinuxQuestions.org is looking for people interested in writing
Editorials, Articles, Reviews, and more. If you'd like to contribute
content, let us know.