How to mount a hardrive over a network?

_MD_ · 05-07-2004, 01:23 PM

yeah, i was wondering if there is any way to mount a HD over a private network? cuz i suddenly ran out of space on my server and have a standalone machine which i am allowed to use one of the harddrives. So is it possible? if so, how? Thank you very much.

(i am not allowed to make the holw hardrive shared tho...)

huibert.alblas · 05-07-2004, 01:37 PM

Samba is your friend here,

just create a samba (or windows) share on the remote computer,
you can then mount this with something like:

mount -t smbfs -o username=mySambaOrWindowsUserName
//IPadressOrHostnameOfRemoteServer/shareName
/path/to/dir/to/mount/the/share

The last few lines are actually one line...

_MD_ · 05-07-2004, 01:39 PM

aghhh.... hate that that would come up, but thanx alot for the help...

i just never configured samba and really have no time reading bigillion pages on how-to...

out of having no choice, i guess i will have to find some time then.... thanx again...