> -----Original Message----- > From: Manny [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Wednesday, June 23, 2004 6:25 AM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: [plug] Mounting Samba shares > > > Here's an interesting question that I'm sure will have > several solutions.
> I have an RH9 machine acting as a fileserver using Samba. > Getting Windows > workstations to connect to it is no problem since Windows > Explorer can > browse and launch files easily on a Samba server. Now we want > to connect > Linux workstations to it. > > This is the easy part. It's no big deal to mount the Samba > shares with a > few entries in /etc/fstab or with an explicit mount command. > But how can > we set it up so that if the server goes down (or isn't > running when the > workstations boot up), the workstations will automatically detect and > mount the samba shares? check this out: http://uranus.it.swin.edu.au/~jn/linux/smbfs/#Automount and try these gui based win lan browsers too: http://www.mandrakelinux.com/en/demos/tutorials/linneighborhood/ http://slackpacks.tchelinux.com.br/xsmbrowser/ hth. - erik -- Philippine Linux Users' Group (PLUG) Mailing List [EMAIL PROTECTED] (#PLUG @ irc.free.net.ph) Official Website: http://plug.linux.org.ph Searchable Archives: http://marc.free.net.ph . To leave, go to http://lists.q-linux.com/mailman/listinfo/plug . Are you a Linux newbie? To join the newbie list, go to http://lists.q-linux.com/mailman/listinfo/ph-linux-newbie
