Mount drive without samba

namit · 02-06-2006, 12:53 PM

I am just wondering any way of setting up mounting drives threw ssh using winscp or another program?

I do not have samba on server does anyone know of anyway?

pljvaldez · 02-06-2006, 12:59 PM

Not sure exactly what you're getting at.

I assume you have a windows computer and a linux computer and you want to get files from one to the other. If you don't want to mess with Samba, you can set your linux box up for ftp and then ftp from the windows box and transfer files that way.

Or you can pull the drive out of the windows system and plug it into your machine and get files that way.

namit · 02-06-2006, 01:01 PM

na i was just wondering since i have winscp running could i mount drives using ssh and not samba

blanks · 02-06-2006, 01:03 PM

What type of drive is it? You only need samba if you're connecting to a machine using the server message block protocol (SMB) i.e. a Windows machine. If it's *nix, it might be an nfs filesystem. ssh can't mount a filesystem, it just executes a shell on a remote machine.

namit · 02-06-2006, 01:05 PM

Ok since that is not possible

Ok if i can use samba i need to change password first
I type smbpasswd and it asks me for current password
What would that be?

I am not root

pljvaldez · 02-06-2006, 01:06 PM

I don't think you can "mount" drives, but yes, you should be able to use winscp over ssh to transfer files back and forth.

pljvaldez · 02-06-2006, 01:06 PM

The samba password should be your windows user password

grcore · 02-06-2006, 01:07 PM

Have you tried using winSCP? You can't mount drives, but it will give you an FTP like interface to your linux directory through SSH.

namit · 02-06-2006, 04:00 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by grcore

Have you tried using winSCP? You can't mount drives, but it will give you an FTP like interface to your linux directory through SSH.

How do you do that?

pljvaldez · 02-06-2006, 04:09 PM

Can you ssh into your box? I've never used Winscp, but I imagine you put your ssh server's IP address in the title bar and click connect. Then it should prompt you for your user password. To make sure ssh is working, you may try to use putty (an ssh client for windows) first.

Here's the documentation for winscp