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Re: [Q] Can Samba mount 'shared' (not 'served') Win drives ?



A long time ago, in a galaxy far, far way, someone said...

> 
> This might be a trivial questions with a quick No! as the answer ...
> 
> At work, in a predominantly NT environment, I use Samba to mount drives of
> the NT servers on the Lan. However, I'd also love to access files on my
> (vanilla NT 4.0) desktop at work which is set to let other 'share' its
> files.  I tried mounting these from a Linux box but failed.  Is there a way
> to get to these files so that I could access the files from Linux?

mount -t smbfs //server/share /mountpoint -o
username=<username>,password=<password>,uid=<uid to have write access>

That should all be one line, of course.

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Phil Brutsche				    pbrutsch@tux.creighton.edu

"There are two things that are infinite; Human stupidity and the
universe. And I'm not sure about the universe." - Albert Einstien



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