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Blue39390
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 Posted: Wed Feb 02, 2005 2:16 am Post subject: Quick question about a network folder |
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I am not sure where to post this so if its in the wrong place Mods please move it
I have my gentoo box (medic, 2004.3) sitting atop of my windows machine (Pavilion751n XP Home). I need to be able to get to specific folders on my windows machine from linux. Here is where i get lost. I know samba can address some of these issues (I worked alittle bit with Samba in High School on in my Computer Servicing 2 class on our Fedora Server ((Dell Poweredge 4200, yeah i know it a brick)), but i never got it to correctly work) If i wasn't on my college campus this won't be problem. Also i am not sure if any of the port that i need are blocked by the routers. i don't want to share the individual directories inside of windows becasue then the people in my resident hall would see my music, videos, etc. Is there any way i can get to these drives in a secure fashion (Username and Password set by me) so that i don't have to keep switching PC's.
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SilverOne
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| Posted: Wed Feb 02, 2005 2:52 am Post subject: |
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Hi,
I don't know the Graphical User Interface way of doing this, but this might help you along in the command line:
Try using:
for seeing the shares of the machine:
| Code: | | smbclient -L //<machine_name> |
for connecting to a share in a FTP-like fashion:
| Code: | | smbclient //<machine_name>/<share_name> |
Note: do not add a trailing slash
for mounting the share to a local directory you can use
| Code: | | smbmount //<machine_name>/<share_name /<local_directory |
This is off the top of my head as I don't use it much.
Hope it helps, also check the man pages of these commands for the username and password settings |
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Blue39390
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| Posted: Wed Feb 02, 2005 4:26 am Post subject: |
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| I will def. check that out. |
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