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

 

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,

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:

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'

 

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

 

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

 

I have a similar situation: Win2k on the server, RedHat Linux v9 on
the client. I can switch to su on the client and use the smbmount
cmd, but I cannot seem to make this work out of /etc/fstab (which
would be a whole lot more convenient); it simply hangs at the point of
mounting the smbfs file. I've even gone to the extent of copying the
info directly from fstab into an smbmount cmd line, to make sure I
don't have any typos in fstab. No luck; when I re-boot, it still
hangs. (Actually, it ran fine one time; I have no idea why.)

My fstab entry looks like this (hostname munged to protect the guilty)
(all on one line, of course, and tab-delimited):
//FOO/ldc_admin /mnt/ldc_admin smbfs credentials=/etc/Foo.info
0 2
--where /etc/Foo.info contains my username and password (again, munged
here):
username=rumplestiltskin/ldc
password=RobinHood
and "ldc" is the domain name. Capitalization matches (except, I just
noticed, for the domain name; I'll try changing that when I re-boot,
but I'm not optimistic :-(+).

I've tried lots of variants of this, e.g. using \\\\FOO\\ldc_admin,
putting the domain name before or after the username, etc.

For debugging purposes, it's a real pain to keep re-booting. Is there
a way I can test variants without re-booting? i.e. a way to run
whatever program is being run over fstab during login (or at least
some portion of fstab--probably not a good idea to re-mount "/"!) Of
course it doesn't help to run smbmount (or mount) as su, because when
I run it that way, it works OK.

It happens that the PC that I'm trying to connect to is the Primary
Domain Server. Is that a problem?

I've tried hard-coding the IP address of this server in my /etc/hosts
file, but that doesn't seem to make any difference.


Mike Maxwell

 

I use noauto and mount it with mount
be sure that network is up before mounting the smbshare

as far as I know it's always //servername_or_ip/sharename
and not the driveletter

see man mount
mount /mnt/ldc_admin should mount //F00/ldc_admin
use umount to unmount. I hope that is what you thought

if you can do it as root, then you have 2 possibilities:
put the option user in the fstap like above
using smbmount you must be the owner of the directory where
to mount. create a directory in your home and use it for
smbmount

no other ideas, sorry

Stephan

 

Now there's a German typo if I ever saw one. (Sorry, I'm a linguist,
so it just caught my eye .)

Thanks--creating a dir in my home to mount it does indeed work (and I
can automate it by putting the smbmount cmd in my .xsession file). I
didn't realize that you had to have write access to the dir that you
want to mount to, although that makes sense. (I don't see that in the
man page for smbmount, but I guess that's par for the course...)

Mike Maxwell