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Any way to mount a Fat32 NETWORK drive?

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DeepSparklePupa

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Howdy. 🙂

Boy, do I apologize if this has been answered elsewhere - I couldn't find it in a search.

I am running a RH 7.3 server with a nice RAID 5 SCSI array, and I would like to back up certain data contained on a separate Win2K machine using FAT32. Try as I might, I cannot mount the Windows share with mount -smbfs //192.168.0.2/d$ /winbackup.

I've mkdir /winbackup
I've confirmed that the drive is shared on the Win box.
The password for the user name logged into the Win box is blank. That is, there is no password.
The guest account is activated on the Win box.

I'd just mount the Linux drive from the Win box and use the backup utility to write directly to the Linux drive, but the Win box is occasionally rebooted and the Linux box *is* passworded. So, reconnecting to the Linux box from the Win box requires a password during boot, and I can't count on my wife to bother entering it. If I don't catch it, the backup utility bombs because it can't access the write drive.

Any help is appreciated.
 
The d$ shares are administrative shares (that is the only permissions you can assign to them). So, create another share and set permissions for the user you want to access it or use your admin info (name/pw) when you connect.

Bill
 
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