access shared windows folders via CLI / script

pirhana · 01-08-2008, 07:17 AM

I have one machine running CentOS5 and 2 windows machines. I know windows very well, but I'm still very much a linux newb.

I have shared a folder on each windows machine and can access this via the file manager in konqueror at smb://192.168.2.20

I now need access to this folder (and its files) via the CLI as I wish to use this in a shell script.

How can this be done? I can't find any detail on this anywhere. Today, Google is not my friend LOL

Any help appreciated.

David the H. · 01-09-2008, 01:27 AM

When the share is mounted, there should be a folder created to access it under /media, or possibly /mnt.

If you want the share to mount permanently to a specific location, you can set up an entry in your /etc/fstab file to tell it where to mount. You should be able to easily find details about how to do it with a simple search (either here or Google).

pirhana · 01-10-2008, 02:38 PM

Thanks, I now see that I need to mount the shared folder. Trouble is I cant seem to do this.

I have created a folder called LOCAL-2-24 in /mnt/ and then tried the following (and many other variants). I'm using CentOS5 if it helps and can see the folders at smb://192.168.2.24/Docs in the GUI
The Windows XP machine at 192.168.2.24 is called LOCAL-2-24

Quote:

[root@local ~]# mount -v -t ntfs //LOCAL-2-24/Docs /mnt/LOCAL-2-24
mount: special device //LOCAL-2-24/Docs does not exist
[root@local ~]#

Quote:

[root@local ~]# mount -v -t ntfs 192.168.2.24:/Docs /mnt/LOCAL-2-24
mount: special device 192.168.2.24:/Docs does not exist
[root@local ~]#

Can anyone point me in the right direction?

pirhana · 01-10-2008, 03:04 PM

As soon as I post for help I figure it

http://www.linuxforums.org/forum/red...-mounting.html
explained how to use cifs as the file format.

Anyways, how do I unmount? I read somewhere the command was unmount but I get

Quote:

-bash: unmount: command not found

David the H. · 01-11-2008, 06:27 AM

It's not 'unmount', it's 'umount'. There's no 'n'. I know it can be a pain for newbies to figure that out.

If you want, you can set up an alias so that either one will work. I'll leave how to do that as an exercise for you to research yourself.