Re: Samba with Win 95
It's easy to mount your Windows 95 shares on Debian.
You need both "smbfs" and "samba". Samba is the Linux server,
"smbfs" is the kernel module that allows you to mount an SMB filesystem.
On Linux, install a kernel with the "smbfs.o" module in
/lib/modules/<version>/fs .
Configure Windows 95 for TCP/IP communications, and make sure you can telnet
back and forth between the two machines. Turn on file sharing using the network
control panel. Go into the explorer, click the icon for the drive or directory
you want to share, click properties, click the "sharing" tab, and fill in the
form with the share name and details.
On Linux, Run "smbclient -L HOSTNAME", where HOSTNAME is the upper-case
host name of the system you want to mount from. It will list the available
shares. Run "modprobe smbfs" to install the module. Run
"smbmount //HOSTNAME/SHARENAME /mountpoint [options]". It's there!
You may have to use quotes when you deal with file names that have spaces
in them at the shell-command level.
Bruce
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