Re: Mounting a Windows XP Shared Folder

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On Wed, 2004-04-28 at 09:25, Greg Ennis wrote:
> I have reviewed Adam Gautier's recent post on mounting a Windows shared
> document folder on his Linux box with interest.  I have tried to do the
> a similar thing for our system but am unable to succeed.
> 
> I have xyz set up as a WindowsXP Professional machine, and I am able to
> access the
> Shared Documents folder on xyz from other Windows machines but have not
> been able to mount it with FC1.  I have xyz listed in my hosts file, and
> have ALL: xyz : allow in my hosts.allow file.  I have also turned off
> iptables to make sure there was no conflict. 
> 
> 
> My fstab entry is:
> xyz:/    /mnt/ceb    smbfs   noauto,user,user=guest    0 0
> 
> When I use the command:
> 
> mount xys:/
> 
> I receive :
> 
> This command is designed to be run from within /bin/mount by giving
> the option '-t smbfs'. For example:
>   mount -t smbfs -o username=tridge,password=foobar //fjall/test
> /data/test


xys:/ is not a Windows share name (or format).  You need something like
//xys/share (//xys/c$ for example).

Forrest




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