I have SimplyMepis and wanted to know when you mount your smb shares, can you mount them somehow in your /mnt directory. Is it imilar to mounting an .iso file like (mount -o loop /mnt/hda6/SomeFile.iso /mnt/isos). The reason I wanted to mount the smb share is because I wanted to run a command like the following to see what directories over the network PCs I have (du -s -B 1024k /home/* | sort -n). Thanks.

Yes. You need to create a mount point first, but the you can mount it on /mnt/remotehostname or whatever. If you already have something mounted on a subdirectory of /mnt/, such as /mnt/isos; then mounting over /mnt/ itself will hide any existing mounts.

Use the "cifs" filetype if possible instead of smbfs. Smbfs is obsolete.
You can also add an entry in /etc/fstab for each computer you want to mount. This can save you typing later. Also, consider creating a credentials file and using that in your /etc/fstab entry or mount command. That prevents the password from being world readable if you use password= in the /etc/fstab entry.

Please read the mount.cifs and mount manpages for more options. If you mount your home directory on another machine and use the cifs filesystem, then you can use the normal Linux permissions. Even the setfacl command will work as long as the target computers filesystem supports acls.

Thanks. One more question though... How do you add a computer to your /etc/fstab file? Do you have a sample of how it should look? I understand the format of the entries like this one (/dev/hda6 /mnt/hda6 ext3 user,exec,rw,noauto 0 0), but don't know if I replace the /dev/hda6 with a computer name? I don't know what the format would be for this. Thanks again.

/etc/fstab entry example:
If the filesystem being shared can handle permissions and acls then the file_mode and dir_mask entries are ignored. The cred option is the location of the credentials file which looks like this:
I used a hidden file just so it doesn't show up normally. It contains a password so make sure it isn't world readable.
See the "mount" and "mount.cifs" and "fstab" manpages for more info.

Hey thanks again, i will give it a try.

This may be a time when "RTM" may not be so impolite : man fstab or, in Konqueror man:/fstab #fstab
-- either of these will display the man page as HTML, & w/ clickable links.

If there's anything in the man page that is confusing, please post back.

Ummm what r u talking about ??