Hi,
I'm new to this list and have never actually used an 8086-linux machine
(I'm doing some embedded stuff), so my apologies if my answers don't
apply.
> Does anyone know how to map network drives? I live in
> an apartment with ethernet service and I wanna map a
> friend's harddrive. I also have a masquerade setup.
> I'm also really new to linux so be detailed!
That depends a lot on what operating system your friend is running. If
it's a Windoze box, chances are the drive is being shared with SMB, aka
Samba. In that case you can pick up the samba and/or smbfs packages (look
on ftp://metalab.unc.edu/pub/Linux/system/network/samba or something like
that). Some kernels have built-in support for mounting samba shares. I
don't have any experience with that.
If you friend is running a flavour of Unix, the drive is probably exported
via NFS. If that's the case then it's even easier. Just do the command
'mount -t nfs <machine-name>:<exported path>
Either way, it's probably not a Linux-8086 question (unless the kernel
interface requires special handling - sorry, have no idea) and therefore
does not belong on this list.
dstn.
