NFS and Samba Clients

[WipeOut]

Krikket wrote:

>I'm trying to network two Fedora boxes and one W2K machine.
>
>I figure running Samba is the answer -- run it on the server, and then a
>client on the desktop, and let the Windows box deal with it however it
>deals with it.
>
>I can configure the Samba server easy enough.  I'll just be damned if I
>can figure out how to configure the Samba *client*  on teh fedora desktop
>machine.
>
>I'm sure that this has been documented to the ends of the earth, but I'll
>be damned if I can find it.  I've checked the samba home page, the
>documentation that came with it, and even did a bunch of googling.
>Somehow I've managed to completely fail in finding any.
>
>If you have a clue as to how to do this, please pass along a pointer...
>
>Embarassed,
>
>Krikket
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I usually do the following..

cd /mnt
mkdir smb
mount -t smbfs -o username=myname //servername/sharename smb
cd smb
ls (here I should see all the files and dirs from the smb server)

Hope that helps..