Hi Bhaskar, I am not sure if you can access a windows share by typing the ip like \\192.168.1.2 but you can access the machine by typing the name directly. For example if the machine name is MYLUG then through the command line you can access the machine by typing this command in the command line
mount -t smbfs -o username=un_on_windows,password=pw_on_windows //MYLUG/share_name /tmp /tmp is the mount point and you can have any mount pouint. Try things as root. You can use some gui clients also, like LinNeibourhood, xsmbrowser etc >From GNOME 2.6 onwards, nautilus can open windows shared folders. It has not worked for me till now, but GNOME doc says its possible. Try it and let us know what you did. For any of these things to work, you need a kernel with SMBFS file system support and samba needs to be running on your machine and should be configured properly. If you are using Fedora or Redhat, the default kernel will definately have the support for SMBFS and also samba (Sometimes its called Windows File Server by some distros) would be installed and configured for basic usage. HTH Regards, Suresh On Tue, 15 Mar 2005 21:02:36 +0530, Ramesh Bhaskar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hi All, > Not sure if I've already posted this query before or not. Is there > any way to access a windows share through linux? Like you just go and > type \\192.168.1.2 to access one windows computer from another? > > Thanks > Ramesh > -- A great deal of human grief is caused by our demanding perfection from everybody but ourselves. Jim Todd
