On Tue, Nov 03, 2009 at 12:01:13AM +0100, Bengt-Erik Soderstrom wrote: > There is, perhaps, an easier way: > Use the Gnome desktop. Click Places in the menu. Click Network. Find > your Windows computer. <Windows-Network> then Resource <MSHome> then the > computer name <MyComputer> and voila: You have access to all the files > you have defined to be shared on your Windows computer! Of course, > resource name and computer name will most certainly be different for you. Please don't top-post... in theory what you suggest should work. but I've certainly had plenty of cases where for reasons unknown to me I couldn't browse to a particular machine or share, but could manually mount it just fine. > > > roland wrote: > >On Mon, 02 Nov 2009 22:28:25 +0100, fred smith > ><fredex@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > >>On Mon, Nov 02, 2009 at 08:12:04PM +0000, Timothy Murphy wrote: > >>>I'm running Samba on a Fedora machine, > >>>and was hoping to access files on a Windows XP Pro client, > >>>by "sudo mount -t cifs harriet:C /mnt/win". > >>>This works OK, but I am not able to browse on the Windows machine. > >>> > >>>Am I misunderstanding something about how Samba works? > >>>Do I need to specify this Windows folder on the Linux box? > >>>Or is there some step I am meant to take on the Windows machine, > >>>beyond allowing File and Folder Sharing? > >> > >>I've done things like that, but find that I need to use some additional > >>mount options to pass along username and password for the share being > >>mounted. something like: > >> > >>mount -t cifs -o user=me,password=mypassword //host/path /mnt/foobar > >> > >>and possibly uid and gid as well, etc. > >> > >>see "man mount.cifs" for gory details. > >> > >> > >also if you want read-write permission > > > >mount -t cifs -o user=me,password=mypassword,rw //host/path /mnt/foobar > > > >default is rw but this seems not to be the case sometimes. Don't ask > >me why > > > >Roland > > > > -- > fedora-list mailing list > fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx > To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list > Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines -- ---- Fred Smith -- fredex@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx ----------------------------- The Lord is like a strong tower. Those who do what is right can run to him for safety. --------------------------- Proverbs 18:10 (niv) ----------------------------- -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
