On Tue, 2002-02-05 at 06:27, Greg Smith wrote: > I would like to attach to a network share on a MSWindows machine. > I'm stumped!! > > Even just a referral as to where I can read up on this. I have found lots of > info on Samba and how to connect to a Linux share from an MSWindows machine, > but not the other way. > > Greg
First off, you need to make sure you have the samba-client package
installed. Here's what my laptop reports:
[dave@dedannshae dave]$ rpm -qa|grep samba
samba-common-2.2.2-3.2mdk
samba-client-2.2.2-3.2mdk
[dave@dedannshae dave]$
Notice that I do not have the samba-server package installed. I don't
share anything on my laptop, I just take from other shares :-)
Once you know you've got the necessary packages installed, you can use
the command-line samba client like this:
[dave@dedannshae dave]$ smbclient -L numidea
added interface ip=10.0.0.93 bcast=10.0.0.255 nmask=255.255.255.0
Password:
Sharename Type Comment
--------- ---- -------
PRINTER$ Disk
HPDJ400 Printer
HOME Disk
IPC$ IPC Remote Inter Process Communication
Server Comment
--------- -------
Workgroup Master
--------- -------
[dave@dedannshae dave]$
to get a list of available shares on a computer named numidea. I see
that there is a HOME share, so I can mount it like this:
[dave@dedannshae dave]$ smbmount //numidea/home mnt/numidea/home/
Password:
[dave@dedannshae dave]$
This assumes I have a mnt/ directory in my home directory, with
numidea/home/ as further subdirectories of mnt/.
There are also several GUI clients which make this much prettier (but,
IMO, not any easier). However, I generally mount the share from the
command line, then simply use Nautilus to browse to the directory and do
what I need to do.
Dave
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