On Fri, Aug 04, 2000 at 09:58:43AM -0500, Kent West wrote: > Dirk Eddelbuettel wrote: > > Yes, as I wrote, that works fine for NT servers providing a share. I use > > that with the corresponding entry in /etc/fstab so that I can simply say > > mount /mountpoint > > and the rest happens automatically. > > > > I now would like to access the C:\ I declared as 'shared' on my desktop. I > > can't figure out what that would be. Whatever I try yields 'session request > > to DESKTOP failed'. > > > > Any idea? > > You said you "would like to access the C:\ I declared as 'shared' > on my desktop." By "desktop", do you mean your workstation
Yes. > computer, or do you mean your Windows Desktop (shell program)? If No, I mean C:\ as the main partition on the 'desktop' computer. > the latter, you can't mean "C:\", yet the error message that you > mention indicates the latter. > > So, what directory have you shared, "C:\" or > "C:\WINNT\PROFILES\YOURUSERNAME\DESKTOP", and with what > permissions? Permissions are read-access for everyone. Can I read those from Linux via Samba? Thanks, Dirk -- According to the latest figures, 43% of all statistics are totally worthless.