Okay! With a couple more hours work, I figured it out. It's unfortunate that 95% of the Samba docs assume you want to connect a Windows workstation to a Linux file server, instead of the other way around. :-)
Anyway, as I hinted in my last email, I had a feeling that I wasn't actually connecting to the server. That turned out to be the case. What worked was using the ip address of the file server, instead of its name: smbmount //192.168.1.100/e /mnt/win I'm guessing that no username/password is required because my Linux machine is part of the Windows Workgroup that owns the Windows shared directory. I haven't actually seen this technique in any of the docs (I just took a desperate guess and tried it), so I'm posting it here. Hopefully it will save someone else the effort. -- John > ---- > 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
