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

Daniel Yek danieyek at alumni.washington.edu
Fri Aug 13 00:16:57 UTC 2004


An alternative is to add noauto and key in Windows password only when
you manually mount the Windows share.

//myWinXp/shareName  /mnt/myWinXp smbfs noauto,uid=userName 0 0

(I haven't tried credentials file.)

-- 
Daniel.




________________________________________________________________________
> From: Alexander Dalloz <alexander.dalloz at uni-bielefeld.de>
> To: For users of Fedora Core releases <fedora-list at redhat.com>
> Subject: Re: How do I mount a windows partition from another computer	on	the network?
> Date: Fri, 13 Aug 2004 01:13:37 +0200
> 
> Am Fr, den 13.08.2004 schrieb Peter Smith um 0:05:
> 
> > > //192.168.1.101://CARL/C$    /mnt/network/192.168.1.101/C    smbfs    
> > > uid=0,gid=500,umask=002,user    0 0
> 
> > You do need to specify a Windows user name and password - even if the pw 
> > is null.  Here is an entry from my /etc/fstab:
> > 
> > //library/d$    /clients/library_D      smbfs   
> > username=administrator,password=xxxxxx,uid=0,gid=0
> 
> > Peter
> 
> And then each user on the Linux host has full access to the Windows[tm]
> box. If that is a good decision?
> 
> The hint with the credentials file was already given.
> 
> Alexander





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