SAMBA: smbmount question

[jtnelson at bbnplanet.com (Jason Nelson)]

>Sitting at my RedHat 6 box, I am trying to mount a Windows machine's
>(davinci) shared drive (phil) (on the windoze box it's on c:\phil),
>where the shared directory has a password set as "phil".
>
>So, as root I type in: smbmount '\\davinci\phil' phil -c 'mount /phil'
>
>Which gives me "Could not resolve mount point"
>
>What am I missing here?

Try this first:

# smbclient -L hostname

This will give you a list of services available.

I use the syntax

smbmount \\\\hostname\\mount_point -c 'mount /mnt/local_mount_point'

Make sure local_mount_point directory exists and you see mount_point when
you did smbclient.

check out:

http://www.sfu.ca/~yzhang/linux/samba/part1.html
or
http://www.germanynet.de/teilnehmer/101/69082/samba.html

Good luck,
Jason


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