Network Drive Mounting Issue

C. Linus Hicks lhicks at nc.rr.com
Sun Jan 30 17:51:43 UTC 2005


On Sun, 2005-01-30 at 11:40 -0600, Chris Graham wrote:
> This may seem like a newbie question, but I'm new to FC3 and I have been 
> looking for hours through the man pages with no luck, but is there a 
> good way in the shell or GNOME to mount a network drive to the system? 
> The drive I need to access requires a logon and is running under a 
> Windows XP partition, although whether it's FAT32 or NTFS I'm not sure.

If you have samba-client RPM installed, read the man page for smbmount.
It is invoked via the mount command. Username is passed as an option,
password as well, or it will prompt for password.

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C. Linus Hicks <lhicks at nc dot rr dot com>




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