[TriLUG] Newbie Question about smbclient

H Brett Bolen wingedlizard at nc.rr.com
Fri Oct 11 11:46:03 EDT 2002


If you forget the parameters, type 'smbmount'  it will give you
an example of how you are supposed to do smb mounts.

If you leave off the password, it will prompt you for one.

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Mark Fowle wrote:
> If you are connecting to the Windows share from the linux box, its just
> a regular mount -
> 
> mount -t smbfs -o username=w2kusername,password=w2kpassword
> //w2kbox/share /mnt/linuxdirectory
> 
> 
> You will have to user a valid username and password for the W2K box --
> 
> Mark
> 
> On Fri, 2002-10-11 at 11:27, Robert Baker wrote:
> 
>>I just installed RH8 on a testing client machine and would like to connect
>>to a windows share on one of our W2K boxes.
>> 
>>Currently I can do this by using this command:
>>"smbclient //servername/sharename <file://\\servername/sharename> "
>> 
>>Is there a way to "map" this to a directory?
>>I'd like to assign this a path maybe? So I could change dir's to get to the
>>files.
>> 
>>Thanks
>> 
>><> Rob Baker <>
>>Webcentric Applications Developer 
> 
> 
> 
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