Ok, I finally got RH 7.1 set up without royally munging anything (avoid logging in as root at all costs!!!), sound works, nic works. Now I would like to be able to access shared folders on my other machine, to listen to MP3s. I think I have the paths correct; the same as what Win2k uses, ie //share/dir1/dir2... Is there any "easy" way to do this?

I did get my FAT32 data partition on the Linux box mounted at one point, but I no longer seem to be able to do so. Is it a similar process to mount network shares?



tia

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if your MP3's are on a windows machine use

smbmount \\host\share /mountpoint

to access them in linux.

if your MP3's are on linux to share with linux use NFS. it's even easier to configure than samba i think. you need to start NFS on your linux server, and use

exportfs client:/directory

to allow the client machine to access that floder. NFS is also much faster i think. Ths will only work if your mp3's are on a linux-friendly drive, eg ext2, ReiserFS etc.. NOT fat32 (windows) partitions. NFS refuses to share fat32 due to security issues. if that is the case then you'll need to use samba instead. same command for the client, but you'll need to configure the server corretly too. 'swat' is the samba admin tool, easiest for newbies and such like.

if these are working, then you can add a permanent version to /etc/fstab along the lines of:

\\host\share /mountpoint smbfs username=terry,password=wogan 0 0
or
host:/directory /mountpoint nfs defaults 0 0

More detailed info is in the NFS and SAMBA howtos.

Hope this helps.