On Sat, 2006-09-16 at 08:34 -0500, Aaron Konstam wrote: > But that leaves a mystery. The man page of mount indicates the > existence of a mount.smbfs (which does not seem to exist). Then there > is smbmount which I thought used to exist but I can't find it in the > distribution. Perhaps Samba is installed through more than one RPM, and you've not got it all? I don't have FC5 here to look at, on FC4 it's a part of the Samba package. > The implication is that you can mount a file share. Can you? And if > you can , how do you do it? You can. You can do so through the command line (as Craig suggested), or with the fstab file. e.g. //windoze/MANUAL /mnt/windoze/manual smbfs auto,uid=tim,gid=tim,noexec,nodev That's a line in my fstab file that mounts a folder shared from a FAT32 drive, on Windows 98 (hence a reason for mounting as a specific user, as the remote resource doesn't have any sort of ownership details). Passwords can also be supplied, though they're generally best obtained from another file, one that's not readable by all and sundry on the system. -- (Currently running FC4, occasionally trying FC5.) Don't send private replies to my address, the mailbox is ignored. I read messages from the public lists.
