On Fri, 23 Apr 2004 22:05, Christopher Sawtell wrote: > On Friday 23 April 2004 20:50, Chris Wilkinson wrote: > > Hi there, > > > > Christopher Sawtell wrote: > > > On Friday 23 April 2004 17:10, Chris Wilkinson wrote: > > >>Hi there, > > >> > > >>Chris Noel wrote: > > >>>Hey Chris, > > >>> > > >>><snip> > > >>>voila all done and yay etc > > >>> > > >>>>I know how in Windows, but not Linux. Windows makes that quite easy > > >>>> for me, but Linux is baffling, since ethernet and smb HOWTO's seem > > >>>> to assume this is passe... > > >> > > >>Excellent advice dude! I shall report back with progress... > > > > > > That's for Gentoo, the others are different. > > > > Perhaps so, but it now works after I just specified a few things > > with drakconnect, and at the Win2K end... > > > > All I need to do now is figure out how to mount the laptop C:\, > > and open it into a konqueror window from a single mouseclick. > > The current process of running LinNeighbourhood and mounting > > the laptop from within there is a little tedious... > > Wot's this C:\ blasphemy doing on a Linux list?! eh? :-P > > Assuming that you have all the smb stuff in the kernel or a loaded module, > you can mount a Win share using either of the smbmount or the mount > commands. mount -t smbfs -o username=you,password=yoursecret > //WORKGROUP/you /mnt/smb assuming that you have previously created the > mount point /mnt/smb using the mkdir command. > > Thus you could, if you so desire, put an appropriate line in /etc/fstab. > This should allow you to create a filesystem icon for your desktop. > > For the gory details put:- > man:/mount > and > man:/smbmount > into the Konqueror Location bar window.
or even better in konqueror try this: F9 to bring out the side bar if it is not there Services tab Lan Browser Find your share thats it permissions may be a barrier, get used to it. Samba has wonderful docos. alternative, if you know the server name and share, in konq: smb://server/share/ > > Further info at:- > > http://localhost:901/swat/help/smbmount.8.html > http://www.icon.co.za/~psheer/book/node42.html.gz
