Now what

Lauren · Post by **Lauren** » Mon Jun 21, 2004 9:42 am

Ok, I have samba up and running...but now im confused....

the purpose of me installing and configuring samba was to be able to access drive shares (o,p and q) how do i go about doing that now??

pthread · Post by **pthread** » Mon Jun 21, 2004 10:13 am

So do you want to access the drives on a windows machine, or do you want ot make stuff available to windows machines on your linux box?

Lauren · Post by **Lauren** » Mon Jun 21, 2004 10:15 am

I want to be able to access the shared drives from my linux machine...the drives are on our windows machines...so i want to make stuff available!

pthread · Post by **pthread** » Mon Jun 21, 2004 10:38 am

Easy!

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mount -t smbfs -o username=windowsusername,password=windowspassword //ipaddressofwindowsbox/foldertoshare /mnt/mountpoint

Obviously, make sure you create the mountpoint folder first, name it whatever you want... also, I suppose you could use a dns name instead of an ip address for the windows box if you guys have a dns server. Let us know if you have any issues with it.

Oh, and this command is all on one line, it was just too big

Guest · Post by **Guest** » Mon Jun 21, 2004 8:11 pm

Look into LinNeighborhood and/or XFSamba. There is also a KDE browser called Komba, I think.