How do I mount a windows partition from another computer on thenetwork?

[dsavage at peaknet.net]

On Wednesday August 11, 2004 at 2:10 p.m. "Andrew Konosky"
<TerranAce007 at comcast.net> wrote:
> I have another computer I would like to be able to access. I already
> have networking setup between the two system under windows, but I want
> to access the other computer's files while running this one in linux. I
> have a linksys router, and the adress on the other system is
> 192.168.1.101. My system is 192.168.1.100. Here is the fstab entry I made:
>
> 192.168.1.101:/dev/hda1    /mnt/network/192.168.1.101    vfat
> noauto,kudzu,user,rw    0 0
>
> I keep getting server is down errors or /dev/hda1 does not exist. How do
> I set this up? Should filesystem be vfat or nfs?

Andrew,

After the target machine's IP address you need to specify the Windows
share name, not the hardware device. You'll also want to change 'vfat' to
'smbfs'. And since a machine or domain logon will almost certainly be
needed, either add username=<arg> and password=<arg> or
credentials=<path_to_credfile> to the options list. See 'man smbmount' for
details.

-- Doc
Robert G. (Doc) Savage, BSE(EE), CISSP, RHCE | Fairview Heights, IL
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