How do I mount a windows partition from another computer on thenetwork?

[Andrew Konosky]

dsavage at peaknet.net wrote:

>On Wednesday August 11, 2004 at 2:10 p.m. "Andrew Konosky"
><TerranAce007 at comcast.net> wrote:
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>>I have another computer I would like to be able to access. I already
>>have networking setup between the two system under windows, but I want
>>to access the other computer's files while running this one in linux. I
>>have a linksys router, and the adress on the other system is
>>192.168.1.101. My system is 192.168.1.100. Here is the fstab entry I made:
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>>192.168.1.101:/dev/hda1    /mnt/network/192.168.1.101    vfat
>>noauto,kudzu,user,rw    0 0
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>>I keep getting server is down errors or /dev/hda1 does not exist. How do
>>I set this up? Should filesystem be vfat or nfs?
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>Andrew,
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>After the target machine's IP address you need to specify the Windows
>share name, not the hardware device. You'll also want to change 'vfat' to
>'smbfs'. And since a machine or domain logon will almost certainly be
>needed, either add username=<arg> and password=<arg> or
>credentials=<path_to_credfile> to the options list. See 'man smbmount' for
>details.
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>-- Doc
>Robert G. (Doc) Savage, BSE(EE), CISSP, RHCE | Fairview Heights, IL
>Fedora Core 1 kernel 2.4.22-1.2199.nptl on P-III/M IBM Thinkpad A22p
>"Perfection is the enemy of good enough."
>                         -- Admiral of the Fleet Sergei G. Gorshkov
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Okay, the names of the windows drive is simply the partition name "C." I 
don't have it setup to require username or password. What is the correct 
format for the fstab entry?

192.168.1.101:C    /mnt/network/192.168.1.101/    smbfs    
noauto,user,rw    0 0