Re: Map Network Drives

["Anthony E. Greene" <agreene pobox com>]

On 01-Jun-2003/15:45 -0400, "Brent L. Cox" <redhatmail charter net> wrote:
>I there a way to Map a network location on a MS Windows 
>system like Maping drive on a MS Windows system. Can you 
>do that on linux I have a share on a Windows system that I 
>want to map on my linux box. 

I think Nautilus and Konqueror can do this using a URL like
smb://winbox/sharename. You can do it at the command line like this:

 smbmount //winbox/sharename /path/mountdir -o See_man_page_for_options

You can make smbmnt suid to allow normal users to call smbmount.

Tony
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