I remember the old days when I hopelessly tried to access a
windoze machine too.
I remember using smbmount.
Look up that thing.
Recently, I saw that Corel Linux has a feature that browses
network shares a la win9x, maybe you should use Corel
instead. I discontinued use of Corel Linux because I
couldn't get it to work with my epson stylus color printers.
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>Subject: Re: [plug] Samba Question
>Date: 06/07/2000 1:22 PM
>From: "Horatio B. Bogbindero" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>To: Plug Mailing List <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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>> I've setup a small Samba-based network. Accessing
files in Linux
>> server from Win98 is OK. But accessing shared C: drive in
Win98 (pc1)
>> from Linux is a bit problematic. WORKGROUP is the
Workgroup
>>
>> Command tried:
>> # smbclient
'//pc1\\\\Network_Neighborhood\\Entire_Network\\WORKGROUP\\P
C1\\C:\\$' -U user1
>>
>i do not usually use smbclient but as i recall it is
something like
># smbclient //workgroupname/pcname/sharename -U user1
>
>even if you share the entire C: drive win98 will require
you to place a
>sharename and by default it is simply C. that make the
command.
># smbclient //WORKGROUP/PC1/C -U user1
>
>> Error Message:
>> tree connect failed: ERRSRV - ERRinvnetname (Invalid
network name
>> in tree connect.)
>>
>this error appears because even i cannot make sense of your
syntax above.
>
>hope this answers your question.
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