Sharing a windows directory under linux

Wimpie22 · 08-07-2003, 08:07 AM

hello,

can anyone help me

I have installed a redhat 8.0 server with samba, i can share a linux directory so i can see it on my windows XP machine, but how can i share a windows directory, can i do that with samba and how????

Wimpie22 · 08-07-2003, 08:09 AM

i want to share a windows directory so i can see it under linux and i can backup that directory help!!

irish_rover · 08-07-2003, 08:16 AM

share the directory under windows as normal. You can then use smbmount to mount the share under Linux. Something like....

mount -t smbfs -o username=tridge,password=foobar //winmachine/share /some/local/directory

Cooner · 08-07-2003, 08:18 AM

You need to mount the directory somwhere onto your linux filesystem, like /mnt/windows.
try:
mount -t smbfs -o username=yourusername,password=yourpassword //windowsID/shareddirectory /mnt/windows

Wimpie22 · 08-07-2003, 08:33 AM

It works thanks you man!!! it's easy but you have to no it thx!!

Wimpie22 · 08-07-2003, 09:04 AM

how can i set the mounting so its will be mounted at startup

Cooner · 08-07-2003, 09:15 AM

I use a script file that gets run from rc.local

irish_rover · 08-07-2003, 05:54 PM

You could just put it in /etc/fstab set to auto

Crowebert · 08-07-2003, 06:10 PM

question: how did you set windows to be able to read a linux partition?

linux_pioneer · 08-07-2003, 06:22 PM

Crowebert,

With samba on your linux system, your windows sytem will see the linux partition as a workgroup share. You can find it in networkniehborhood.

Crowebert · 08-07-2003, 08:45 PM

kewl! thx!

Wimpie22 · 08-08-2003, 02:40 AM

how must the line look like in /etc/fstab???

irish_rover · 08-08-2003, 07:23 AM

Here is an example from another thread:

//figax/D /mnt/smb/figax/D smbfs username=administrator,password=,fmask=0777,dmask=0777,rw 0 0