linux mounting network windows volumes

adriaanbw · 09-12-2003, 04:06 AM

Folks,

I have Mandrake 9.1 on one box and Windows XP and 2000 on two other machines.

I want to be able to view NTFS partitions on both the XP and 2000 machines from within linux. I have seen stuff about samba and have installed it, but it seems to me that samba lets you view linux shares from windows but not vice versa.

Can someone spell out what i must do?

Thanks

cmfarley19 · 09-12-2003, 05:28 AM

Code:

mount -t smbfs //windows_machine_name/share_name /mnt/mount_point -o username=windows_username%password

That should do it.

malkis · 09-12-2003, 05:29 AM

You should be able to simply use something like:
mount -t smbfs -o username=MyAccount //Server/share /mnt/dir

Where MyAccount is a account with rights for the share (unless you use guest access), //Server/share is the UNC path and /mnt/dir is the local mountpoint.

If memory serves of course.. I'm still a bit of a newbie...

[edit]Whoopss... Slow typin'![/edit]