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Now what
Posted: Mon Jun 21, 2004 9:42 am
by Lauren
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??
Posted: Mon Jun 21, 2004 10:13 am
by pthread
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?
Posted: Mon Jun 21, 2004 10:15 am
by Lauren
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!
Posted: Mon Jun 21, 2004 10:38 am
by pthread
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
Posted: Mon Jun 21, 2004 8:11 pm
by Guest
Look into LinNeighborhood and/or XFSamba. There is also a KDE browser called Komba, I think.