Mapping a windows drive to a Linux box

tbthorpe · 02-19-2005, 09:12 PM

Anyone know how to do this? Or have any resources to help me? Thanks a bunch

-Tim

acid_kewpie · 02-19-2005, 09:25 PM

you want to mount a windows share in linux? search this site for "smbmount" or check the manpage for smbmount on your system, if it's already installed.

PTrenholme · 02-19-2005, 09:44 PM

If, on the other hand, you want to access NTFS file systems, look at the Linux-NTFS project on SourceForge.

Samba is for network access -- mounting a remote filesystem.

acid_kewpie · 02-19-2005, 09:59 PM

well this is the networking forum.. same time he doesn't actually say either way...

tbthorpe · 02-20-2005, 02:44 AM

Well i have a PC where i store all my movies/music/random stuff, and it's NTFS/WinXP. I want to be able to access the shared drives on my laptop, running Fedora core 3. would i use smbmount, or this Linux NTFS project on sourceforge?

PTrenholme · 02-21-2005, 02:33 PM

For that you need Samba.

Go to the Samba site and look at the How-to's and examples.

Here's the way mine is set:
[12:30 ~] $ cat /etc/samba/smb.conf | grep -e ^\[^#\;\]
[global]
workgroup = trenholme
server string = Upstairs office
hosts allow = 90.0.0. 127.
printcap name = /etc/printcap
printing = cups
cups options = raw
log file = /var/log/samba/%m.log
max log size = 50
security = share
username map = /etc/samba/smbusers
socket options = TCP_NODELAY SO_SNDBUF=8192 SO_RCVBUF=8192
remote browse sync = 90.0.0.1
remote announce = 90.0.0.255
local master = no
wins server = 90.0.0.1
dns proxy = no
winbind uid = 16777216-33554431
winbind gid = 16777216-33554431
restrict anonymous = no
domain master = no
preferred master = no
max protocol = NT
ldap ssl = No
server signing = Auto
disable netbios = yes
[homes]
comment = Home Directories
read only = no
[printers]
comment = All Printers
path = /var/spool/samba
browseable = no
guest ok = no
printable = yes

PTrenholme · 02-21-2005, 02:48 PM

Oh, after you get Samba configured, I find it useful to put something like the following in /etc/rc.d/rc.local (password masked just 'cause I'm paranoid).

# Mount the drives on tss-1
mount -t smbfs -o workgroup=trenholme,uid=peter,gid=peter,username='Peter Trenholme',password=****** //tss-1/'BOOT (C)' /mnt/tss-1/c
mount -t smbfs -o workgroup=trenholme,uid=peter,gid=peter,username='Peter Trenholme',password=****** //tss-1/D /mnt/tss-1/d

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Note that tss-1 is defined in /etc/samba/lmhosts as (surprise!) 90.0.0.1