Re: How to access to the windows boxes in the network?

Ankush Grover ha scritto/wrote il giorno/on 15/03/2005 17:49:

On Wed, 16 Mar 2005 00:40:59 +0800, yufan <iamyufan@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

hello all,
How can my FC3 access to the windows boxes in the same network? My
samba is working but i can not see any windows com's name in the
windows network under the network server. i tried Redhat9.0 before and
it could access to other systems with ease but i don know why FC3
cannot. Shall i configure anything for samba? pls help me
thanks in advance

Hey,

I don't know how to access the windows share through network
neighbourhood in linux.But you can access the windows shares on linux.

mount -t smbfs //windows_machine/share_folder /linux_mount/directory
-o user=windows_user

then it will ask for the password give the password of the windows
user you will be able to access the windows shares.
You have to do this for all the windows shares.

For fstab entry

//windows_machine/share_folder /linux_mount/directory smbfs credentials =/etc/.smb 0 0

in /etc/.smb file

username = windows_username(valid windows user)

password =windows username's password

If your trying to access win2k3 shares you will receive errors

for win2k3 shares use CIFS

mount -t cifs //windows_machine/share_folder /linux_mountpoint/directory -o username=windows_user

then it will ask for the password

For fstab entry

replace smbfs with cifs in the previous entry.

Regards

Ankush

Excellent solution for a Linux guru, not for a standard office (or home) user :consider for example in case you have some laptops connecting to your network and you want to access them to get some data...the IT network is not Linux only world!!!
Same problem here, trying to access shared Windows folders is a pain(sometimes it works, sometimes not, some shared folders seems to be more accessible than others): and it was working in previous releases.

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Antonio M.

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