Mounting a Network Drive in Linux

[liri]

ne1 know how to mount a fat32 drive shared out on the local LAN in linux?
the computers are running win2k and winme and are on the local lan.

thx

 

[andri]

`smbmount' is your friend.

 

[Ace69]

I hope you have Samba running on your network....

 

[liri]

thx
how do i use the sbmount command? i know how to use the mount command. i guess i could just look it up in the man pages.

how do i know if i have samba running on my network? what do u mean by that?
thx

 

[andri]

smbmount can mount Windows shares just fine. Make sure that the windows boxes have NetBIOS over TCP/IP enabled tho, as Linux knows exactly nothing about NetBEUI.

 

[TonyRic]

man smbmount

 

[Chatterjee]

ximian setup tools offers the Shares tool to connect to Windows shares via samba

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