[K12OSN] Mounting SAMBA shares on a Linux workstation

[Bert Rolston]

Hey all,

Thanks for the help last week.

Now I've hit another snag.

I use FC5 as my OS of choice. I'm trying to open files on the Samba
server from Open Office. The OO file browser won't let me access the
network directly, the way Konqueror does. 

So I've come to the conclusion that I need to mount the SAMBA shares in
my filesystem. Great in theory, difficult in practice.

I've tried using the mount.cifs man pages, but they are difficult to
understand. 

The Redhat help FAQ's have useful suggestions, but it appears I can only
carry out the methods in their FAQ's as root.

I can access the files through Konqueror. Which means I have to copy the
file from the server to the local machine. Then I can work on it, and
save it locally. After that I can save back to the server. This sort of
defeats the purpose of a central file store / server.

I've also tried using NFS, but my workstation can't find the NFS server.

How are people on this list going about solving this problem?

Thanks for your help,
Bert