I am looking for advice on how one might be able to mount a share on a windows xp client machine using the client machine's IP address as the reference in the mount command. I can achieve this using file type smbfs but I was really wondering if it could be done using nfs somehow.

On my netwok I have an xp machine at 192.168.0.10 host name apollo and I want to mount the share \\apollo\audio on my linxu box at /mnt/windows. I need this to be done using a method that gives a good level of security if possible.

Any assistence would be greatly appreciated.

look the help of mount command
u will get the answer

mount -t smbfs -o username=<user's name>, password=<password> //192.168.0.10/audio /mnt/windows

I tried as suggested mount -t smbfs -o user=<user>,password=<password> //192.168.0.10/audio /mnt/windows
and got two reply messages
3143:session request to 192.168.0.10 failed (Called name not present)
3143:sessino request to 192 failed (Called name not present)
on the terminal then the terminal hung until ctl-c was entered.

Strangely I could then see the windows files at /mnt/windows.


I also tried mount -t smbfs -o user=<user>,password=<password> //apollo/audio /mnt/windows
and got the following error
wins_svr_died(): Could not ,ark WINS server 127.0.0.1 down
Address not found in server list

This also crashed nmbd and reported nothing in the log.nmb file. I then restarted smb and things seemed normal again. This sequence happens every time i use the above mount command.

Any ideas anyone???

Add apollo to your /etc/hosts so you can ping it by name. Then your should be able to use the mount command like this: mount -t smbfs -o user=<user>,password=<password> //apollo/audio /mnt/windows.