follow up: no smb network access

[Adam Voigt]

Try using the IP like:

mount -t smbfs -o username=guest //192.168.1.1/whatever /mnt/blah



On Mon, 2004-05-10 at 11:26, Florian Idelberger wrote:
> [root at incarnationofdeath sane.d]# mount -t smbfs -o username=guest 
> "//ratte/Neuer Ordner" /mnt/floppy
> 5498: Connection to ratte failed
> SMB connection failed
> 
> That's what I get. But that doesn't help me any further because even 
> before I knew that I got no connection. But why? i don't know which 
> settings could be wrong.
> 
> Stefan Lange wrote:
> 
> > Florian Idelberger wrote:
> >
> >> I haven't tried smbclient from the commandline because I don't know 
> >> how to use it to seek for online machines.
> >
> >
> > assuming you want to get access to a windows share try this from the 
> > command line:
> >
> > mount -t smbfs -o username=YOURNAME;password=YOURPASSWORD 
> > //COMPUTERNAME/SHARE /MOUNTPOINT
> >
> > where YOURNAME and YOURPASSWORD are the username and password of the 
> > windows computer. You should either get access to the share or an 
> > error message, that tells you where your problem is...
> >
> > greetings, stefan
> >
> >
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Adam Voigt
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