hi friends,
i am using red hat linux(kernel 2.6) and sharing its folders with a windows server in a network.
Windows server is able to access the linux folders through Samba but I am unable to access the folders present on windows from the linux system.
I have checked the firewall settings. They are perfectly fine.
Can anyone tell me how can i solve my problem..??

Hi,

Can you tell what does it mean by
"I am unable to access the folders present on windows from the linux system."
Are you getting some kind of errors?
If so what are those?
Have tried mounting windows shares on linx?

Please post the errors you are facing

To further those questions, how are you trying to mount the windows share on your linux machine? from the command line? A line in your fstab?

i think u need to mention a windows username and his password in samba.conf
file under /etc. so that the user gets the proper authentication required for accessing the folder from windows, As he logons with the mentioned username.

please tell me the procedure to mount windows share on the linux system...I will be very thankful if anyone can do it fast.

Hi Ashley,

You can mount as follows:-

mount -t smbfs //winmachinename/winsharename /mnt/somepoint/


This will ask username /password which you will have to provide mannually. Share will remain mounted untill next reboot.

The automatic and permenant way:-

in /etc/fstab make follwing entries:-

//winmachine/winshare /mnt/windows/c smbfs defaults 1 1


//winmach2/cdrom /mnt/windows/cdrom smbfs username="urusername",password="yourpassword" 1 1

Hope your problem will get solved!

hey.. thanks a lot..that was very helpful and i was just luking for how to make an entry in fstab when u helped me out.
But i didnt understand ont thing..
In place of winmachine ,i will give the machine name on which i have windows,but what is this entry of winmach2 about?? what is winmach2 and why have u used cd-rom along with that?
please reply me fast if possible.
Thank u for ur time.

Hi Ashley,

Winmach2 entry was as follows:-
//winmach2/ cdrom /mnt/windows/cdrom smbfs
username="urusername",password="yourpassword" 1 1


simply it was a machine with name winmach2
which had a share named "cdrom" mounted on "/mnt/windows/cdrom" with username on windows "urusername"
and a password "yourpassword"

thank u so much for ur assistance..
I have solved my problem completely..
Thanks a lot..

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