mount windows share

Craig White craigwhite at azapple.com
Mon Jul 28 20:37:09 UTC 2008


On Mon, 2008-07-28 at 21:38 +0100, Anne Wilson wrote:
> On Monday 28 July 2008 20:49, Craig White wrote:
> > On Mon, 2008-07-28 at 20:44 +0100, Anne Wilson wrote:
> > > On Monday 28 July 2008 20:07:50 Seann Clark wrote:
> > > > Looking at the list
> > > > replies it looks like they are talking of mounting a share in
> > > > Windows...
> > >
> > > I've no idea why, but as far as I know you can't use samba client without
> > > setting up samba server.
> >
> > ----
> > disabuse yourself of that notion...it is wrong.
> >
> Maybe he just meant that you can't install the client alone.  Is that so?
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 rpm -q --whatprovides /sbin/mount.cifs
samba-client-3.2.0-2.17.fc9.i386

so samba-client package is required to mount -t cifs but beyond that, no
configuration is needed.

Craig




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