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Monday, July 08, 2002

 
How to mount a Windows SMB drive from a linux box.

  1. Linux Box must be on same subnet
  2. must have identical account on Windows share and Linux (ie:dmiyares must be setup on the Windows NT share and the linuxbox as a valid user)
  3. login to the linux box using the account name that you have on the SMB machine. Change to root (since you can't mount as a user)
  4. issue the command mount -t smbfs //hubble/DEMG /mnt/DEMG This will then mount a share on Hubble called DEMG to a local linux mount called /mnt/DEMG. This assumes that both are valid directories and the user name you are logged into on the linux box is valid
  5. You'll be prompted for a password. This is what ever password you use to log into the Penton Netowrk

You can get a list of shares on any computer by issuing the command
  smbclient -L servername

More info HERE

UPDATE:mount -t smbfs //audiobox/DOWNLOADS /mnt/DOWNLOADS/ -o username='username',password=password
This will mount a share called Downloads on a box called Audiobox using the username (on the remote box) of username & password of password. This works VERY nicely

posted by Scales and Pom 2:10 PM


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