our school intranet is based on windows
and for each student we have a disk labeled 'z' that resides on the server machine
which means no matter from which machine we log on to the school net we can have access to this network disk by clicking "my z disk "

problem is i can't access this 'z' disk from my suse box
after i click "my z disk"
it says 'z' is not a registered protocol

and the URL is

*.fr/Intra/Relayer.aspx?Nomfic=z:&Titre=Mon%20r%C3%A9pertoire%20personnel

so how can i gain access to this disk?

i try using samba since i know it is a bridge between windows and unix network
but i dont know which program to run
findsmb did give out some results
but not so interesting

mount \\server\share /mnt/my_z_disk

or something like that should do... i'd be interested to know what you've actually done to get this icon on your desktop... am i right in thinking you created a desktop icon and told it to run "Z:" ?? linux doesn't use drive letters. "Z:" will never *ever* mean anything in linux.

btw. it's worth stopping to realise how stupid drive letters are. what on earth does "C:" mean...?? why C? what a stupidly restrtictive and aribitrary convention that is.

the 'my z' is a hyperlink on the school main page

i dont know how to find the server that provides the service in the first place
i have tried smbtree and the results are:

tacca@linux:~> smbtree
Password:
session request to 192.168.0.251 failed (Called name not present)
MSHOME
ENSAM
session request to 192.168.0.251 failed (Called name not present)
\\KONGJING
\\AN-ALPHA-7 Serveur WTS
\\AN-ALPHA-6 Serveur WTS
\\AN-ALPHA-5 Serveur WTS
EDUQUATRE
session request to 192.168.0.35 failed (Called name not present)
\\SERVEUR
AN-WTS
session request to 192.168.0.128 failed (Called name not present)
\\AN-WTS-CL23
\\AN-WTS-CL22
\\AN-WTS-CL21
\\AN-WTS-CL20
\\AN-WTS-CL19
\\AN-WTS-CL14


and i also tried nmap

Interesting ports on 192.168.0.35:
(The 1640 ports scanned but not shown below are in state: closed)
PORT STATE SERVICE
25/tcp open smtp
53/tcp open domain
80/tcp open http
88/tcp open kerberos-sec
135/tcp open msrpc
139/tcp open netbios-ssn
389/tcp open ldap
443/tcp open https
445/tcp open microsoft-ds
464/tcp open kpasswd5
593/tcp open http-rpc-epmap
636/tcp open ldapssl
1026/tcp open LSA-or-nterm
1029/tcp open ms-lsa
1084/tcp open ansoft-lm-2
2000/tcp open callbook
3268/tcp open globalcatLDAP
3269/tcp open globalcatLDAPssl
3372/tcp open msdtc

so how can i find where my netdisk is ?

just look at where the drive is being mounted from in windows.

so basicBVGally you have a link in the homepage... "<a href=file://z:\blah..>" wow, that's seriously nasty... it's really relying on IE being both a browser and the windows shell. nasty.

...After all, how could anyone possibly understand what a "C" drive is, when we all know intuitively from birth what "cron," "bash," and "hashstat" mean, for example. Fascinating how people can be locked into their own paradigms...

tacca,
Log into one of the school's windows boxes and hold the little windows logo key down while pressing the E key. you should get a window my computer showing all your drive letters, c:, z: etc and you can just look at z: and it should say something like tacca on 'school_pdc' (z:) which means \\school_pdc\tacca (the names will be slightly different, but that is the information you need) and you can then do exactly what acid_kewpie suggested, mount smb:\\school_pdc\tacca /mnt/school_homedir

merci for everyone