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

Peter Smith pasmith at wbmpl.com.au
Thu Aug 12 22:05:40 UTC 2004


Andrew Konosky wrote:

> Well, now I am not getting any errors telling me the file isn't there, 
> so I must have the syntax right now, but now it can't connect!
>
> //192.168.1.101://CARL/C$    /mnt/network/192.168.1.101/C    smbfs    
> uid=0,gid=500,umask=002,user    0 0
>
>
You do need to specify a Windows user name and password - even if the pw 
is null.  Here is an entry from my /etc/fstab:

//library/d$    /clients/library_D      smbfs   
username=administrator,password=xxxxxx,uid=0,gid=0

HTH
Peter





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