Accessing a shared folder on a Windows based computer

Hi,

How do I access a shared folder on a Wintel box from my Linux box?

Thanks.

On Sat, 23 Oct 2004 08:19:19 -0700, circuit_breaker wrote:

> Hi,
>
> How do I access a shared folder on a Wintel box from my Linux box?

With Samba. Install it from your distro's package management system or
download and compile the source from www.samba.org.

You will also need to make sure your kernel has smbfs filesystem support.
cat /proc/filesystems to find out.

With that lot out the way, smbmount should work.

smbmount //wintelbox/share /mnt/share

If you need something more complex (eg, credientials, uid/guid masks, etc)
please read the smbmount man page.

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Geoffrey King <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote
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>> How do I access a shared folder on a Wintel box from my Linux box?
>
> With Samba. Install it from your distro's package management system or
> download and compile the source from www.samba.org.
>
> You will also need to make sure your kernel has smbfs filesystem
> support. cat /proc/filesystems to find out.

You may also use the smbclient tools.

It allow you to manipulate files on a remote Windows share (copy/move/tar,
....) without mounting the share in your directory tree.

Of it's limited compare to smbfs, but it may be enough for example to
backup, ...

Regards

It's working! Thanks

Geoffrey King <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message news:<(E-Mail Removed) ndns.org>...
> On Sat, 23 Oct 2004 08:19:19 -0700, circuit_breaker wrote:
>
> > Hi,
> >
> > How do I access a shared folder on a Wintel box from my Linux box?
>
> With Samba. Install it from your distro's package management system or
> download and compile the source from www.samba.org.
>
> You will also need to make sure your kernel has smbfs filesystem support.
> cat /proc/filesystems to find out.
>
> With that lot out the way, smbmount should work.
>
> smbmount //wintelbox/share /mnt/share
>
> If you need something more complex (eg, credientials, uid/guid masks, etc)
> please read the smbmount man page.