Let me add that you can also do linux/unix to linux/unix sharing using samba shares. It's useful if you don't want to add yet another network filesystem protocol to network/management tasks.
It all works quite well. -Mike ----- Original Message ----- From: "Mike McMullen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Sunday, June 01, 2003 3:25 PM Subject: Re: Map Network Drives > Check out smbmount. We mount windows shares all the time in our > office. For ad hoc mounting it can go something like this: > > smbmount //windowsbox/share /mylinux/mountpoint/here > > If password protected you will be prompted for the share password. > > See smbmount for more details. > > You can also put an SMB mount in /etc/fstab. I do that on a few servers. > > Also useful is "smbclient". It allows you to query hosts for what shares > are available. It's also kind of a ftp client using smb. > > See "smbclient". > > Hope this helps, > > Mike > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Anthony E. Greene" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Sent: Sunday, June 01, 2003 3:12 PM > Subject: Re: Map Network Drives > > > > On 01-Jun-2003/17:05 -0500, Mike Burger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > >Look into setting up Samba. > > > > He wants to sit at his Linux desktop and use data residing in shared > > directories on Winboxes. You don't need to setup Samba for that. > > > > Samba allows Winboxes to access data in shared directories on *nix boxes. > > > > Tony > > -- > > Anthony E. Greene <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > OpenPGP Key: 0x6C94239D/7B3D BD7D 7D91 1B44 BA26 C484 A42A 60DD 6C94 239D > > AOL/Yahoo Messenger: TonyG05 HomePage: <http://www.pobox.com/~agreene/> > > Linux. The choice of a GNU generation <http://www.linux.org/> > > > > > > -- > > redhat-list mailing list > > unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list > > > > > -- > redhat-list mailing list > unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list > -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
