Mounting a windows machines drives on a linux machine

Hi there,
I have 2 machines, one running WinXP and one running Linux (Mandrake 9.1).
I have managed to get samba running on the linux machine so I can access the
Linux drive from the windows box. Now, I want to mount the Windows drives
on the Linux machine. Can somebody tell me how this is done?
Thanks
Allan

Allan Bruce wrote:
> Hi there,
> I have 2 machines, one running WinXP and one running Linux (Mandrake 9.1).
> I have managed to get samba running on the linux machine so I can access the
> Linux drive from the windows box. Now, I want to mount the Windows drives
> on the Linux machine. Can somebody tell me how this is done?
> Thanks
> Allan
>
>

I'm not sure if it can be done. I believe M$ decided they didn't want
that kind of thing happening so they messed with it, I can't connect to
a WinXP drive from a Win2K computer. But that goes to show version
incompatibility.

Hi,

Allan Bruce schrieb:
> Hi there,
> I have 2 machines, one running WinXP and one running Linux (Mandrake 9.1).
> I have managed to get samba running on the linux machine so I can access the
> Linux drive from the windows box. Now, I want to mount the Windows drives
> on the Linux machine. Can somebody tell me how this is done?
> Thanks
> Allan
>
>

use
smbmount //servername/sharename /localname -o username=xxx
smbumount

I think the other possibility is using
mount -t smbfs
you can write this to fstab like
//servername/sharename /localfolder smbfs rw,noauto,user,umask=000
0 0

Both work with red hat and WindowsXP and Windows98.

Stephan

"Stephan Absmeier" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
news:(E-Mail Removed)...
> Hi,
>
> Allan Bruce schrieb:
> > Hi there,
> > I have 2 machines, one running WinXP and one running Linux (Mandrake
9.1).
> > I have managed to get samba running on the linux machine so I can access
the
> > Linux drive from the windows box. Now, I want to mount the Windows
drives
> > on the Linux machine. Can somebody tell me how this is done?
> > Thanks
> > Allan
> >
> >
>
> use
> smbmount //servername/sharename /localname -o username=xxx
> smbumount
>
> I think the other possibility is using
> mount -t smbfs
> you can write this to fstab like
> //servername/sharename /localfolder smbfs rw,noauto,user,umask=000
> 0 0
>
> Both work with red hat and WindowsXP and Windows98.
>
> Stephan
>

It tries to connect, and asks for the password. Then it says:
6830: tree connect failed: ERRDOS - ERRnosuchshare (You specified an invalid
share name)
Do I have to do anything to the windows machine?
Thanks
Allan

Allan Bruce schrieb:
> "Stephan Absmeier" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
> news:(E-Mail Removed)...
>
>>Hi,
>>
>>Allan Bruce schrieb:
>>
>>>Hi there,
>>>I have 2 machines, one running WinXP and one running Linux (Mandrake
>>
> 9.1).
>
>>>I have managed to get samba running on the linux machine so I can access
>>
> the
>
>>>Linux drive from the windows box. Now, I want to mount the Windows
>>
> drives
>
>>>on the Linux machine. Can somebody tell me how this is done?
>>>Thanks
>>>Allan
>>>
>>>
>>
>>use
>>smbmount //servername/sharename /localname -o username=xxx
>>smbumount
>>
>>I think the other possibility is using
>>mount -t smbfs
>>you can write this to fstab like
>>//servername/sharename /localfolder smbfs rw,noauto,user,umask=000
>> 0 0
>>
>>Both work with red hat and WindowsXP and Windows98.
>>
>>Stephan
>>
>
>
> It tries to connect, and asks for the password. Then it says:
> 6830: tree connect failed: ERRDOS - ERRnosuchshare (You specified an invalid
> share name)
> Do I have to do anything to the windows machine?
> Thanks
> Allan
>
>

use

smbclient -L servername -N

to see the available share, on the windows machine you have to share
folders or devices. you can do this in the properties of the folder or
the device. If there's no option to do this you have to install the
service for sharing devices and printers in the network configuration

> > It tries to connect, and asks for the password. Then it says:
> > 6830: tree connect failed: ERRDOS - ERRnosuchshare (You specified an
invalid
> > share name)
> > Do I have to do anything to the windows machine?
> > Thanks
> > Allan
> >
> >
>
> use
>
> smbclient -L servername -N
>
> to see the available share, on the windows machine you have to share
> folders or devices. you can do this in the properties of the folder or
> the device. If there's no option to do this you have to install the
> service for sharing devices and printers in the network configuration
>

I see all of the shared drives on the windows machine with the above
command, but I still get a "(You specified an invalid share name)". The
windows machine is successfully sharing its drives with another windows
machine.
Any ideas?
Thanks
Allan

Allan Bruce schrieb:
>>>It tries to connect, and asks for the password. Then it says:
>>>6830: tree connect failed: ERRDOS - ERRnosuchshare (You specified an
>>
> invalid
>
>>>share name)
>>>Do I have to do anything to the windows machine?
>>>Thanks
>>>Allan
>>>
>>>
>>
>>use
>>
>>smbclient -L servername -N
>>
>>to see the available share, on the windows machine you have to share
>>folders or devices. you can do this in the properties of the folder or
>>the device. If there's no option to do this you have to install the
>>service for sharing devices and printers in the network configuration
>>
>
>
> I see all of the shared drives on the windows machine with the above
> command, but I still get a "(You specified an invalid share name)". The
> windows machine is successfully sharing its drives with another windows
> machine.
> Any ideas?
> Thanks
> Allan
>
>
if
smbclient -L servername -N
works on the linux machine try
smbmount ... workgroup=your_windows_workgroup
else
try the ip-address

have a look on 'man smbmnt' or 'man smbmount'

Allan Bruce schrieb:
>>>It tries to connect, and asks for the password. Then it says:
>>>6830: tree connect failed: ERRDOS - ERRnosuchshare (You specified an
>>
> invalid
>
>>>share name)
>>>Do I have to do anything to the windows machine?
>>>Thanks
>>>Allan
>>>
>>>
>>
>>use
>>
>>smbclient -L servername -N
>>
>>to see the available share, on the windows machine you have to share
>>folders or devices. you can do this in the properties of the folder or
>>the device. If there's no option to do this you have to install the
>>service for sharing devices and printers in the network configuration
>>
>
>
> I see all of the shared drives on the windows machine with the above
> command, but I still get a "(You specified an invalid share name)". The
> windows machine is successfully sharing its drives with another windows
> machine.
> Any ideas?
> Thanks
> Allan
>
>


if
smbclient -L servername -N
works on the linux machine try
smbmount ... workgroup=your_windows_workgroup
else
try the ip-address

no more ideas in the moment
maybe have a look on 'man smbmnt' or 'man smbmount'

Stephan

On Tue, 30 Sep 2003 08:15:23 +0100, Allan Bruce wrote:

>>> It tries to connect, and asks for the password. Then it says:
>>> 6830: tree connect failed: ERRDOS - ERRnosuchshare (You specified an
> invalid
>>> share name)
>>> Do I have to do anything to the windows machine?
>>> Thanks
>>> Allan
>>>
>>>
>>
>> use
>>
>> smbclient -L servername -N
>>
>> to see the available share, on the windows machine you have to share
>> folders or devices. you can do this in the properties of the folder or
>> the device. If there's no option to do this you have to install the
>> service for sharing devices and printers in the network configuration
>>
>
> I see all of the shared drives on the windows machine with the above
> command, but I still get a "(You specified an invalid share name)". The
> windows machine is successfully sharing its drives with another windows
> machine.
> Any ideas?
> Thanks
> Allan

Any spaces in the sharename? If so you may need to put quotes around it.

"John Armstrong" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
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> On Tue, 30 Sep 2003 08:15:23 +0100, Allan Bruce wrote:
>
> >>> It tries to connect, and asks for the password. Then it says:
> >>> 6830: tree connect failed: ERRDOS - ERRnosuchshare (You specified an
> > invalid
> >>> share name)
> >>> Do I have to do anything to the windows machine?
> >>> Thanks
> >>> Allan
> >>>
> >>>
> >>
> >> use
> >>
> >> smbclient -L servername -N
> >>
> >> to see the available share, on the windows machine you have to share
> >> folders or devices. you can do this in the properties of the folder or
> >> the device. If there's no option to do this you have to install the
> >> service for sharing devices and printers in the network configuration
> >>
> >
> > I see all of the shared drives on the windows machine with the above
> > command, but I still get a "(You specified an invalid share name)". The
> > windows machine is successfully sharing its drives with another windows
> > machine.
> > Any ideas?
> > Thanks
> > Allan
>
> Any spaces in the sharename? If so you may need to put quotes around it.

I didnt think there was - I was trying the drive letter as the share name,
but it was requiring the label and the drive letter, e.g.
//picard/"games (d)"
And now it works )
thanks guys
Allan