On Sat, 2004-06-26 at 12:57, John Almberg wrote: > Like many, I'm trying to make the move from Windows to Linux. > Unfortunately, I'm not the only one who works at my company. The primary > file server is a Windows XP Pro machine. There is a share on this > machine that I must connnect to. > > As a first step, I'm trying to connect to this shared directory from my > new Linux workstation. > > After many hours of combing through documentation and web pages, I > believe I need to use smbmount, however, I can't seem to get this to > work. > > What I think should work is: > > smbmount //company-name/e /mnt/win > > where 'company-name' is the full name of the server, and the share is > mapped to drive 'E:' > > however, this results in the following error message: > > 4842: Connection to company-name failed > SMB connection failed > > I've also tried variations on this theme, adding username, etc., but I > always get the same error, so I suspect I'm not even connecting to the > server... > > I'm sure that this is a common problem for people trying to make the > transition, so any help, much appreciated. ---- mount -t smbfs //server_name/share_name -o \ "username=Windows_user,password=Windows_user_password" /mnt/windows
I think...doing this from memory Craig -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the instructions: http://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/samba
