Hello George,
You may need to 'double up' the / when mounting an NT server - gee that
sounds rude ;-)
I have found (admittably on RH4.2) that to mount an NT server I needed the
code ////ntserver//cdrive
Why -I have no idea - but I must have seen something to give me the idea.
hth
Mike
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Subject: RE: [expert] Logging into NT domain.
> Hmmm... I just tried it, I get the error "Could not resolve mount point
> //pc6077/zip/sambamount
> The particular share I'm trying to get to is on PC6077 (NT box) on my Zip
> drive (shared out as \Zip).
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> Ron Heron <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>@linux-mandrake.com on 02/22/2001 12:13:05 PM
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> #mkdir /sambamount (or whatever, just a directory to mount to)
> #mount -rw -t smbfs -o username=joe,password=blow //clienthostname
> /sambamount
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> Ron
> --- [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> > Yeah, I've got Samba up and running. I'll probably grab that book. I had
> > thought about it before.
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> > I've tried using Gnomba to see my network. I can see everything on the
> > network, I can look at whatever folders are on an particular server (or
> > whatever I've shared out on my NT boxes on the network).
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> > One weird thing you guys might be able to help me with though: When
> > using
> > Gnomba, I can see folders on the network, but I cannot mount them and
> > see
> > their contents. Is there anything I can do from the command line to
> > mount a
> > nework directory and actually see it's contents?
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> > your side is the o'reilly book. it was like a bible to me.
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> > mg
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