From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from uq.net.au(fox.uq.net.au[203.101.255.1]) (1599 bytes) by braille.uwo.ca via smail with P:esmtp/D:aliases/T:pipe (sender: ) id for ; Wed, 23 May 2001 19:01:42 -0400 (EDT) (Smail-3.2.0.102 1998-Aug-2 #2 built 1999-Sep-5) Received: from data.home (mail@dyn-10-64.dialin.uq.net.au [203.100.10.64]) by uq.net.au (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id JAA20006 for ; Thu, 24 May 2001 09:01:43 +1000 (GMT+1000) Received: from geoff by data.home with local-esmtp (Exim 3.12 #1 (Debian)) id 152f9S-0003XX-00; Thu, 24 May 2001 06:22:38 +1000 Date: Thu, 24 May 2001 06:22:38 +1000 (EST) From: Geoff Shang To: Subject: Re: samba problem. In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII List-Id: Hi: I realise you're going about doing a much more complicated samba setup than I use, but it might be worth telling what I did. I only really want to read windows shares from linux, as I have no real need to go the other way. I just set the shares up in windows, then used the mount command as per normal to mount it. Mount calls smbmount in order to achieve this. The syntax for mounting smb shares is: mount -t smbfs //host/sharename /mountpoint The mount procedure will prompt you for the password. So for example, I mount my primary windows drive as follows: mount -t smbfs //picard/c /windows/c Where picard is the name of the windows box, c is the sharename on the windows box, and /windows/c is the mount point (this last one could just as easily be /mnt or whatever). Geoff.