On Wed, 9 Feb 2005 06:50:19 -0600, akonstam@xxxxxxxxxxx <akonstam@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > I recently received a clarification from out Windows people that the > share is really //trinity-tigers/users so technically smbmount is > doing what it is advertised to do but Windows 2000 and XP allow you to > mount one level below the share. I am getting the feeling that > smbmount will not. Aaron, I'm sorry to differ from what your "Windows people" tell you, but I have never seen any method for creating a mount that is a level below where the mount point is. For example, I have a Windows machine called "HOST" and I have created a share called "DATA". Below data, I create another sub-directory (NOT another share) called "FILES". From a remote window machine, I can map a network drive (or what we are calling mounting) to \\HOST\DATA but I can NOT mount to \\HOST\DATA\FILES It just can't be done. You can only mount to the point of the share, not the point of directories below the share. So in your example, you have a host called "trinity-tigers" and a share called "users" and then user directories below that. Most windows administrators will simply set up their shares like this so that each user does not have to map to individual directories, and you can actually see directories for ALL users. However because of the way they set up permissions, you will probably only have access to YOUR files. My suggestion, in that case, is to mount the \\trinity-tigers\users directory with your user credentials that you have on the windows system. For example, mount \\trinity-tigers\users to a mount point called "trinity". Then when you want to see your data you would cd to /trinity/akonstam just like on the windows network you would cd to your users area and then find your own subdirectory. If you don't want to do it that way, you could also create a mount of \\trinity-tigers\users and then create a symbolic link that points to your user directory. Here's an example: At your root level, create a directory called /mnt/trinity Mount \\trinity-tigers\users to /mnt/trinity Create a symbolic link: ln -s /mnt/trinity/akonstam /home/akonstam/trinity-share Then when you cd to /home/akonstam/trinity-share, you are not seeing all the user files, but just yours. There are probably dozens of ways to do this, but I really don't think that you can mount directly to a directory below a mount point. -- David ----------------------------------------------------------------------- There are only 10 kinds of people in this world, those who understand binary, and those who don't.
