Re: how to reach to windows machines

[Kent West <westk@acu.edu>]

Oguz Altun wrote:

> Hi all.
>
> I want to reach to the shared folders of windows
> machines on this windows network, my machine being
> debian/unstable.
>
> Should I install samba? is there any way to achieve
> it without samba?
>  

Samba's probably going to be your best solution.
   apt-get install smbfs
should do the trick, although might also need smbclient. Then a command 
like:
   smbmount //windowsPC/ShareName ~/mnt/MyWindowsShares
(assuming "mnt/MyWindowsShares" is an existing directory in your home dir)
should get you going. If you're in an NT domain or Windows workgroup 
environment, your Debian username will need to be the same as your 
Windows username, or you'll have to feed that to the smbmount command, 
something like this:
   smbmount //windowsPC/ShareName ~/mnt/MyWindowsShares -o 
username=winuser/ntdomain-workgroupname

man smbmount for more info.

The smbclient tool is useful for finding what shares are on a machine, 
for example:
   smbclient -L someWindowsBox
will list all the shares on the computer named "someWindowsBox".



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Kent West (westk@acu.edu)