How to access a shared windows folder.

I am using fedora 8 and am trying to connect to my windows xp
machine's shared folder. I am able to see the machine on the local
network and the shared folder using

smbclient -L \\COMPUTERNAME -I 111.111.1.1

but how do i access the folder and get files from it.???????????

On Dec 13, 7:01 pm, paulritt...@hotmail.com wrote:
> I am using fedora 8 and am trying to connect to my windows xp
> machine's shared folder. I am able to see the machine on the local
> network and the shared folder using
>
> smbclient -L \\COMPUTERNAME -I 111.111.1.1
>
> but how do i access the folder and get files from it.???????????

It's not clear what you're asking. Why not just read the documentation
for 'smbclient' and use it to do those things? Or do you want to
actually mount it? If so, read the documentation on "smbmount".

DS

On Dec 13, 11:51 pm, David Schwartz <dav...@webmaster.com> wrote:
> On Dec 13, 7:01 pm, paulritt...@hotmail.com wrote:
>
> > I am using fedora 8 and am trying to connect to my windows xp
> > machine'ssharedfolder. I am able to see the machine on the local
> > network and thesharedfolder using
>
> > smbclient -L \\COMPUTERNAME -I 111.111.1.1
>
> > but how do iaccessthe folder and get files from it.???????????
>
> It's not clear what you're asking. Why not just read the documentation
> for 'smbclient' and use it to do those things? Or do you want to
> actually mount it? If so, read the documentation on "smbmount".
>
> DS

I want to actually mount the folder... I am going to look up
"smbmount"
Thanks Much

(E-Mail Removed) wrote:
> I am using fedora 8 and am trying to connect to my windows xp
> machine's shared folder.

Assuming you're using Gnome. Try nautilus --> File --> connect to server
--> Windows Share.

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In news:fb1cfebb-580e-4522-9784-(E-Mail Removed),
(E-Mail Removed) <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:
> I am using fedora 8 and am trying to connect to my windows xp
> machine's shared folder. I am able to see the machine on the local
> network and the shared folder using
>
> smbclient -L \\COMPUTERNAME -I 111.111.1.1
>
> but how do i access the folder and get files from it.???????????

Mount it so it becomes part of your local filesystem, e.g.:

mkdir /tmp/xp
mount -t smbfs //computername/sharename /tmp/xp -o \
username=username,uid=userid,gid=groupid

where username is the xp username to whom acces is restricted (if so), and
userid and groupid are local to your Linux system. It's not advised to use
password= in the options, as that would display the password needed (if
required) on the xp machine to access the share. It would be visible to
anyone running "ps auxww" on the Linux box.

Then you can access the files under /tmp/xp as if they were local to your
machine. Even if the filesystem on the xp box is NTFS, read/write occurs
properly, as it's handled by the xp machine and not the Linux.