Mounting a Windows XP Shared Folder
Taylor, ForrestX
forrestx.taylor at intel.com
Wed Apr 28 17:14:24 UTC 2004
On Wed, 2004-04-28 at 09:25, Greg Ennis wrote:
> I have reviewed Adam Gautier's recent post on mounting a Windows shared
> document folder on his Linux box with interest. I have tried to do the
> a similar thing for our system but am unable to succeed.
>
> I have xyz set up as a WindowsXP Professional machine, and I am able to
> access the
> Shared Documents folder on xyz from other Windows machines but have not
> been able to mount it with FC1. I have xyz listed in my hosts file, and
> have ALL: xyz : allow in my hosts.allow file. I have also turned off
> iptables to make sure there was no conflict.
>
>
> My fstab entry is:
> xyz:/ /mnt/ceb smbfs noauto,user,user=guest 0 0
>
> When I use the command:
>
> mount xys:/
>
> I receive :
>
> This command is designed to be run from within /bin/mount by giving
> the option '-t smbfs'. For example:
> mount -t smbfs -o username=tridge,password=foobar //fjall/test
> /data/test
xys:/ is not a Windows share name (or format). You need something like
//xys/share (//xys/c$ for example).
Forrest
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