Hi,
If I want to transfer files from my laptop to my home directory on the
college server (win2k) I have to mount it as a drive.
First create a directory in linux to 'show' your home directory
in.....something like 'school'.....I created mine in the mnt directory where
the rest of the mountables are. So, open a terminal, and as root type mkdir
school. This will create the directory. Then type exit to get out of your
root account.
Now whenever you want to access your school files type
mount -t smbfs -o username=whateveryourwindowsusernameis
//winservername/youraccount /mnt/school
I know it seems a little complicated but it's not really. The command is
telling your computer to mount a smb filesystem (windows) and you have to
state the windows server name followed by the path to your school account.
Then there is a space and /mnt/school
The windows server should then ask for your password. Supply it and now all
your school files are visible and accessible in /mnt/school using any file
manager ....... Konqueror down on the button bar is easy to use and appears
similar to Windows Explorer.
I hope this helps.......You can also automate this to automagically mount
your windows shares but I just type the command when required.
Regards,
Bill W.
At the command line
On Wednesday 17 July 2002 03:32 pm, you wrote:
> even Konq (the default web browser and KDE file handler) can ftp and can
> connect to the folders on any other machine that allows you to. try it. the
> world is in your XFree86 file mangers, just like at your desktop
>
> On Wednesday 17 July 2002 06:13 pm, you wrote:
> > I'm a newbie and wish to transfer files from my networked Mandrake 8.2
> > machine to my home account on the university server. I'm sure mandrake
> > comes with such a command line or xwindows utilty.
> >
> > Can anyone tell me what it's name is?
> >
> > If I know I am sure I can look up the man pages for using it. Thanks
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