Hints for XP Home share mount?
I'm running a Dell Latitude D600 on a home Ethernet network. The Dell runs RH 9.0.
When I'm at school, while using a similar router, I can easily mount my Apple iBook's Samba shares on my Dell. I don't even manually start Samba. When I come home, I try to mount the shares on my wife's Toshiba notebook which runs XP home but it always seems to fail. Anyone got any tips for mounting XP Home shares? I just su and type smbmount //herpcname/sharename /mnt/wife Any help would be great! Do they need to be on the same workgroup? I tried to substitute her machine's subnet IP for "herpcname" above and no luck there either. Thanks! Rich Hoyer |
what errors do you get if any?
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"not a valid share"
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until I added it to fstab, I would mount my win2000 shares with
mount -t smbfs //machine/share username=me password=mypass /mnt/point |
This is a just a theory but i dont think redhat 9 comes with NTFS support out of the box, so unless that XP home computer was formatted in fat it wont work until you install the ntfs support rpm.
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no password
mikshaw - what is there is not password on the user account whose share you want to mount? I can mount my shares with my logon name but not my wife's with her name
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Maybe you need to add permission for your user on the XP share? Not sure.
doralsoral: As long as the share is set up properly, I don't think it matters if you have local NTFS supportl...that's what Samba was made for. |
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