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
