Re: FC2 - Samba setup

[Rick Stevens <rstevens vitalstream com>]

Kostas Sfakiotakis wrote:
> Greetings Mark ,
>
> Mark Knecht wrote:
>
> > Whoopie! I got part of it working. Browsing from my Win XP Pro laptop
> > to the shares on the FC2 box required running smbpasswd as root and
> > adding user mark to the smb password file.
>
> :))
>
> Well now , in order for things to work the other way arrount , you just
> have to use the
>
> mount -t smbfs -o username=Mark  //Computername/Sharename  /mountpoint.
>
> ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
>                                                    I still forget if the 
> slashes above are
> forward or reverse .

Samba will use either, but the forward slashes ("//") are easier to use.
You have to escape backslashes.  Two backslashes need to be specified as
"\\\\".  Using backslashes, Kostas' thing would read:

mount -t smbfs -o username=Mark  \\\\Computername\\Sharename
  /mountpoint

Yuck!

> And that's all of it .Transfering files between the two systems is 
> pretty fast .
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