Re: Map Network Drives

["Mike McMullen" <mlm loanprocessing net>]

Let me add that you can also do linux/unix to linux/unix sharing using
samba shares. It's useful if you don't want to add yet another network
filesystem protocol to network/management tasks.

It all works quite well. -Mike

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Mike McMullen" <mlm loanprocessing net>
To: <redhat-list redhat com>
Sent: Sunday, June 01, 2003 3:25 PM
Subject: Re: Map Network Drives


> Check out smbmount. We mount windows shares all the time in our
> office. For ad hoc mounting it can go something like this:
>
> smbmount //windowsbox/share /mylinux/mountpoint/here
>
> If password protected you will be prompted for the share password.
>
> See smbmount for more details.
>
> You can also put an SMB mount in /etc/fstab. I do that on a few servers.
>
> Also useful is "smbclient". It allows you to query hosts for what shares
> are available. It's also kind of a ftp client using smb.
>
> See "smbclient".
>
> Hope this helps,
>
> Mike
>
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Anthony E. Greene" <agreene pobox com>
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> Sent: Sunday, June 01, 2003 3:12 PM
> Subject: Re: Map Network Drives
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>
> > On 01-Jun-2003/17:05 -0500, Mike Burger <mburger bubbanfriends org>
wrote:
> > >Look into setting up Samba.
> >
> > He wants to sit at his Linux desktop and use data residing in shared
> > directories on Winboxes. You don't need to setup Samba for that.
> >
> > Samba allows Winboxes to access data in shared directories on *nix
boxes.
> >
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