Accessing Windows share without mount?

[John Abreau]

I believe both of the automounter packages, am-utils and autofs, have
support
for cifs filesystems. I've found on various distributions that often one
of them
would work and the other wouldn't, but I always managed to get one of them
working.

Once it's set up, you'd access the share via

    /smb/windows_machine/share

and it would automount whenever you accessed it, and auto-unmount after
a configurable timeout period.


Scott Ehrlich wrote:
> If I want to access a Windows/Samba share from a Windows box, I can
> simply select Start > Run > \\windows_machine\share
>
>> From a Mac, I can select Command-K (or Go > Connect to Server) 
> smb://windows_machine/share
>
>> From a Linux machine, is there any way to do the above kind of concept 
> without having to mount the share?  Mounting is the equivalent of
> Windows' Mapping a Network Drive, yet is there a faster way to access
> a resource through a UNC-style convention or something else without
> having to outright mount?   The resources in question happen to be on
> a Windows Domain controller, but could just as easily apply to
> workstation with a shared folder.
>
> Thanks.
>
> Scott
>

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