Problem accessing windows shares using samba

Tinku · 08-01-2004, 11:22 AM

I have difficulty accessing windows shares on my Lan.
When I type smb://compname,,the cursor gives a waiting sign and nothing happens even after a long time...i use suse 9.1 professional........also I can see the shares bu the command line "smbclinet -L machinename"
Can someone tell me how to fix this,,
And also how to copy the windows shares from the command line>?

Tinku

DrWorm · 08-01-2004, 12:16 PM

Use the mount command. Lets say your share is 'test' on the computer 'testbed'. To mount it on /mnt/test, you'd do this:
mkdir /mnt/test
mount -t smbfs -o username=[your_username_on_testbed] \\\\testbed\\test /mnt/test
Then it would ask you for your password (on testbed) and it would mount. Note: you might have to do that as root, depending on how your system works. Hope That Helps.

Eric Snabber
http://alloscomp.com

Tinku · 08-01-2004, 12:57 PM

hi
thnx
it worked,,,and ne idea why the smb://compname in the konquerer isnt working but the smb:/ is displaying all the workgroups?
tia

Vincent_Vega · 08-01-2004, 04:57 PM

have you tried the smb://<comp_name> including a share name too?
e.g., smb://computer1/documents

Tinku · 08-02-2004, 12:10 AM

yeah,thats working,----thanx,but why is smb://machinename not functioning????????

thanx anyway

Vincent_Vega · 08-02-2004, 08:06 PM

Because it needs to access an actual share, not just browse the computer. You would just use smbclient -L <ipaddress_or_compname> to see what a specific computer shares.

Ogregore · 08-05-2004, 07:47 PM

Vincent

I had been searching and reading and could not understand or get either the share or the printer on a WinXP desktop to be seen or used by my Suse 9.1 laptop - until I tried your simple smbclient -L command - which showed the shares (I had been listing them incorrectly the whole time) and now....

I can see the files on both machines, I can print from the laptop to the desktop.

THANK YOU