<<Sorry moderator I just also sent this from a non-subscribed address>>There isn't a standard way to mount smb shares on Linux boxes - last time I checked smb wasn't directly supported by mount but it does seem to be trying to get in there - in future an entry in fstab might suffice, but meanwhile it will vary from distribution to distribution. Similar for SMB printing. If none of the SUSE people can solve this, ask again and I'll post a rc script for mounting drives (ISR there is a PAM lib which mounts SMB drives.....).
Bob,
I can mount the share called Forge on /home/forge but its only read onlyWhat I want to do is access my hp
and read/write if mounted by root. >
printer and ditto max tape which are connected to the windows machine so I
can print and backup from the linux machine. Have you any idea's on this.
Tape access is not supported over SMB. There is a protocol (rmt) but it is not intrinsically very secure and isn't supported by Microsoft Windows. Take a look at Arkeia / Amanda / Veritas. (NB if you have the tape drive on the Unix box, then you can use more tools than the other way around - e.g. GnuTar on the Win box running over rmt, share the C: drive across smb and run tar on the Linux box ....).
HTH
Colin
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