how to mane WinXP drive visible from Linux

[theCheetah]

I am running winXp in one machine and made one drive as sharable. Now on my other machine running Mandrake Linux9.1 and samba I want to vied this windows drive and share the files. How can I achieve this. Here are the two parallel steps I took

1)
on Linux
mkdir /mnt/d
mount //<windows machine name>/d /mnt/d

gives me errors

2)
on Linux web browser type
smb://<windows machine name>/d

It shows the d:/ drive but doesn't show any files inside

Does anyone have any idea about how can i solve this! Any help welcome.

 

[sciencewhiz]

when you mount the drive, you need to include a username and password. The easiest way is to put it in your fstab. Here is the one entry from mine. Also, if you don't have an entry in your fstab for /mnt/d then you will need to tell it that it is smbfs with "-t smbfs".

//Gateway700/gatewayshar /mnt/gateway700 smbfs defaults,user,noauto,username=abc,password=123 0 0

 

[rjain]

if you just want a temp mount, you'd do
mount //machine/share /mnt/tmp -t smbfs -o defaults,user,noauto,username=blah

note that you don't need to supply the password in either the mount command or the fstab. mount will prompt you for it if necessary.