Samba with Windows XP client

[Bengt-Erik Soderstrom]

  There is, perhaps, an easier way:
Use the Gnome desktop. Click Places in the menu. Click Network. Find 
your Windows computer. <Windows-Network> then Resource <MSHome> then the 
computer name <MyComputer> and voila: You have access to all the files 
you have defined to be shared on your Windows computer! Of course, 
resource name and computer name will most certainly be different for you.


roland wrote:
> On Mon, 02 Nov 2009 22:28:25 +0100, fred smith 
> <fredex at fcshome.stoneham.ma.us> wrote:
>
>> On Mon, Nov 02, 2009 at 08:12:04PM +0000, Timothy Murphy wrote:
>>> I'm running Samba on a Fedora machine,
>>> and was hoping to access files on a Windows XP Pro client,
>>> by "sudo mount -t cifs harriet:C /mnt/win".
>>> This works OK, but I am not able to browse on the Windows machine.
>>>
>>> Am I misunderstanding something about how Samba works?
>>> Do I need to specify this Windows folder on the Linux box?
>>> Or is there some step I am meant to take on the Windows machine,
>>> beyond allowing File and Folder Sharing?
>>
>> I've done things like that, but find that I need to use some additional
>> mount options to pass along username and password for the share being
>> mounted. something like:
>>
>> mount -t cifs -o user=me,password=mypassword //host/path /mnt/foobar
>>
>> and possibly uid and gid as well, etc.
>>
>> see "man mount.cifs" for gory details.
>>
>>
> also if you want read-write permission
>
> mount -t cifs -o user=me,password=mypassword,rw  //host/path /mnt/foobar
>
> default is rw but this seems not to be the case sometimes. Don't ask 
> me why
>
> Roland
>