Re: mounting windows shares
On Fri, May 14, 2004 at 12:05:36PM -0400, Harland Christofferson wrote:
> At Friday, 14 May 2004, Kent West <westk@acu.edu> wrote:
>
> >Harland Christofferson wrote:
<snip>
> >>
> >>mount chokes on the windblows directory "system products" .
> >>
> >>i assume this is b/c of the space in the directory name. what should
> >>i do so i can mount this windblows share?
> >>
> >
> >I just did a quick test, sharing out \\winserver\My Music, and was
> able
> >to mount it with:
> >
> >smbmount "//winserver/My Music" mntpoint
> >
> >(notice the quotes). I tried the mount command like you're using above
> >and it failed, but then I don't know the exact syntax and am too
> lazy to
> >look it up, so YMMV.
> >
> >--
> >Kent
> >
> >
>
> i am not having the same luck as you are. i can mount to //windblowsserver/backup
> but i cannot mount to "//windblowsserver/backup/system products"
> i tried smbmount and mount -t smbfs. any other suggestions?
>
Are you sure that is a windows share? I mean, is the windows share
"//windslowsserver/backup" and "system products" is just a directory
under that share? Or are they *both* valid windows shares?
What does "smbclient -L windblowsserver" list as the valid shares?
HTH
--
Chris Harris <charris@rtcmarketing.com>
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