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How to mount a Windows share in Linux?

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We have a Windows domain w/ server 2003 / XP hosts. Recently, we deployed a bunch of Linux boxes.

How can I mount a windows network share w/ read/write permission on these Linux boxes??

All the documents I've found all point to samba w/ various commands like:
mount -t smbfs -o username="Tom Jones",password=pwd //server/share /mnt/mntPoint

However, the command doesn't work in our environment!! Is it because we have a Windows domain instead of a simple workgroup??

If anyone knows how to achieve what I need done please let me know.
Thanks!
 
Which version of Linux are you using?

I'd try a support forum at that flavor or directly at Samba's site.
http://us1.samba.org/samba/ (If your in the US)

I found this out of date tutorial from 2003 using a google search.
http://linux.ittoolbox.com/documents/ho...mba-3-in-to-a-windows-2003-domain-2666

Good luck, I've got Debian to mount our W2k Shares but had trouble getting print sharing to work well except with our 2 ip printers. We don't have 2003 here so I don't have first hand experience with that directly.

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Edit for Call to Help!

Okay Fedora Core experts here is your chance to help. . . I'd try nweaver's suggestion!
 
Fedora Core 4 / RHEL WS 4

The 2nd site looks promising, but it's way too complicated - I'm not running a Samba server on Linux or authenticating against Windows on Linux...All I want is file sharing.
I'll have a closer look when I find some time.
Thanks!
 
I was under the impression that Linux could not write to NTFS file systems, but maybe I heard incorrectly. For reads, SAMBA is not very hard to set up, haven't tried it with a domain though.
 
Originally posted by: Captain Howdy
I was under the impression that Linux could not write to NTFS file systems, but maybe I heard incorrectly. For reads, SAMBA is not very hard to set up, haven't tried it with a domain though.
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This is dealing with windows SHARES...network shares make filesystem irrelevant.
 
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