Samba Question.

mattschinkel · 08-23-2003, 02:53 PM

Hey there, I'm new to these forums

Looks quite nice (except I hate the url to get here), I would suggest forums.linuxquestions.org as a direct link to these forums.

anyways, I installed Redhat 9.0 on a little box at home, I successfully got Samba running and a directory shared across my home network. Eg, windows can view the linux shared directory via the "My Network Places".

The question is, How may I view a windows shared drive from my linux box?

david_ross · 08-23-2003, 03:05 PM

Welcome to LQ.

You will need to use the mount command. Create a mount point then mount the drive:
mkdir /mnt/mywinbox
mount -t smbfs -o username=USER,password=PASSWORD //winbox/share /mnt/mywinbox

PenGPow · 08-23-2003, 04:23 PM

just a side note you could use konquere to get the share name on the windows box
url would be something like :

smb://your-_windows_machine_name

PenGPow · 08-23-2003, 04:23 PM

just a side note you could use konquere to get the share name on the windows box
url would be something like :

smb://your_windows_machine_name

mattschinkel · 08-24-2003, 02:15 AM

Thanks, worked great.
How do I have it automount on bootup?

david_ross · 08-24-2003, 06:04 AM

You can either create an entry in /etc/fstab or put the mount command at the end of rc.local

I have see reports of people having problems putting it in /etc/fstab (ie it won't always mount). Plus if you use rc.local you could write a script to see if the other machine is alive before it tries to mount the share.

mattschinkel · 08-24-2003, 02:13 PM

can you give me an example entry for /etc/fstab?

thanks for the help.

david_ross · 08-24-2003, 02:17 PM

Try this:

Code:

//winbox/share /mnt/mywinbox smbfs username=USER,password=PASSWORD,user 0 0

mattschinkel · 08-24-2003, 02:32 PM

Is it possible to mount a ftp location?

david_ross · 08-24-2003, 02:42 PM

Take a look here for examples and a howto:
http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/Kernel-HOWTO/ftpfs.html

mattschinkel · 08-25-2003, 07:07 AM

Thanks, very cool stuff.