I'm running a Dell Latitude D600 on a home Ethernet network. The Dell runs RH 9.0.

When I'm at school, while using a similar router, I can easily mount my Apple iBook's Samba shares on my Dell. I don't even manually start Samba.

When I come home, I try to mount the shares on my wife's Toshiba notebook which runs XP home but it always seems to fail. Anyone got any tips for mounting XP Home shares? I just su and type

smbmount //herpcname/sharename /mnt/wife

Any help would be great! Do they need to be on the same workgroup? I tried to substitute her machine's subnet IP for "herpcname" above and no luck there either.

Thanks!

Rich Hoyer

what errors do you get if any?

"not a valid share"

until I added it to fstab, I would mount my win2000 shares with
mount -t smbfs //machine/share username=me password=mypass /mnt/point

This is a just a theory but i dont think redhat 9 comes with NTFS support out of the box, so unless that XP home computer was formatted in fat it wont work until you install the ntfs support rpm.

mikshaw - what is there is not password on the user account whose share you want to mount? I can mount my shares with my logon name but not my wife's with her name

Maybe you need to add permission for your user on the XP share? Not sure.

doralsoral: As long as the share is set up properly, I don't think it matters if you have local NTFS supportl...that's what Samba was made for.