Re: Logging onto a Windows network?
On Tue, 17 Dec 2002, Marc Shapiro wrote:
> One of my professors at school is tired of the MicroSquish way of doing
> things and would like to run Linux on his desktop. The problem is that
> the college's servers are all running on NT. What would he need to do
> in order to be able to log onto the campus network from a Linux box?
> >From what I have seen, SAMBA is just the opposite. It allows Windows
> boxes access to a Linux server, but he needs to access a Windows server
> from Linux. Have I missed something obvious? What documentation and
> packages should I have him look at?
Samba will also let you connect to Windows PC's, you can mount the remote
share on a local mount point.
mount -t smbfs -o username=username,password=password //computer/share /mountpoint
if you have smbfs compiled in, and samba properly installed
Take a look at the smbmount man page.
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