I'm running Wndows XP Pro in a VM (Parallels, which rocks!) and I need to mount a Share I have on Windows so my Ant build script can copy files to it for testing. The filesystem of the VM is FAT32.

I can ping the V.M.s IP as you can see below, and the command
smbclient -L 10.37.129.3 does show the share I need to mount.

However I this error trying to mount the share:
ROADWARRIOR:~ # mount -t vfat 10.37.129.3:/ROADWARRIOR2 /mnt/WinSuck
mount: special device 10.37.129.3:/ROADWARRIOR2 does not exist
(I've tried MANY combo's of manes and syntax)

Any thoughts would be great! (I'm kind of in uncharted waters here but running Windows for customer req's is part of the job and this is a great way to do it for me)

Thanks!

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ROADWARRIOR:~ # ping 10.37.129.3
PING 10.37.129.3 (10.37.129.3) 56(84) bytes of data.
64 bytes from 10.37.129.3: icmp_seq=1 ttl=128 time=4.93 ms
[2]+ Stopped ping 10.37.129.3

ROADWARRIOR:~ # smbclient -L 10.37.129.3
Password:
Domain=[ROADWARRIOR2] OS=[Windows 5.1] Server=[Windows 2000 LAN Manager]
Sharename Type Comment
--------- ---- -------
ROADWARRIOR2 Disk
IPC$ IPC Remote IPC
ADMIN$ Disk Remote Admin
MessageBoard Disk
C$ Disk Default share
session request to 10.37.129.3 failed (Called name not present)
session request to 10 failed (Called name not present)
Domain=[ROADWARRIOR2] OS=[Windows 5.1] Server=[Windows 2000 LAN Manager]

you're just using the command totally wrong. first the filesystem is not vfat, it's smbfs (it's irrelevant what the remote disk is actually doing, as it's abstracted totally via SMB/CIFS. secondly the format of the smbfs server is wrong, that's an NFS string. try //1.2.3.4/SHARENAME instead.

all stuff found very easily in the mount manpage btw...

I feel a bit silly

Perhaps not that silly because you have more than 22,000 posts to your credit!

Thanks for the help, it worked of course........ I can't say how pleased I am that I now have the ability to run Windows totally isolated from the Internet for the server components I need (like SQL Server) and still enjoy the freedom and stability of linux.

Thanks.......

Note: I am now totally sold on SuSE SLED 10 SDK and Parallels to run Windows, or any OS I need. I highly recommend this awsome combo. The $50.00 I pay Novell each year for pre-tested patches and $50.00 one-time for Parallels is the best money I've spent in quite a while

not looked at Parallel's myself.. do you really believe that it is a better prospect than the *free* vmware server offerings? this Parallel's thing seems to be totally single box solution, no cross machien resilience or clustering. (putting aside Xen until it matures sufficiently) we're implenting a number of VMware ESX cluster's at a pretty signifcant cost, so i can totally see why VMware turned GSX into the "taster" for ESX in the form of VMware Server.

I don't have that much experience with the technical side of V.M.'s but I did try XEN built into SuSE 10.1 and the Config and useage of it was just more than I wanted to study up on. However our Sys-Admins at the office (www.rhinocorps.com) do run MS SQL Server in XEN on Fedora Core 4 and it works great for all of our development needs .

I'm in the class of developer where I don't mind paying for a good tool if I can just install it, follow a few screens, tweek it for my system and I'm off and working. With a family, school, work and hobbies, I just don't have hours to sit and read manuals and config scripts unless it's mandatory for the task at hand...

That's exactly what Parallels and SLED 10 SDK did for me so I'm sold.

Thanks again for your help and your invited for Mt. Biking or Mt. Climbing if your ever in Albuquerque ;-)

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One more thing if anyone sees this...

I can't seem to get the above command to mount the SMB device as Read/Write.

I know rw is the default for the mount command but after it's mounted, as SU, I can't chmod it to 777.....

My Java/ANT Job can't write to the mount and it's failing on a permission error.

Any help is appreciated.