Re: [PLUG] where is the mount point?

On 10/4/07, TuskenTower <tuskentower@gmail.com > wrote:

On 10/4/07, Matt Mossholder <matt@mossholder.com > wrote:
> On Thu, 2007-10-04 at 13:38 -0400, Brent Saner wrote:
> > Sonny-
> > for what it's worth, i believe you can mount Samba like NFS (in
> > windows it's called "mapping a drive")... but i'd love to hear some
> > confirmation on this from the samba geeks in here.
> >
> > if you're anxious, i'm SURE it's in the documentation
> >
>
> Oh, it definitely can be done, it just doesn't work the same way :)
>
> Googling for smbfs and fstab will show the way...
>
The filesystem is not mounted.  Gnome, and I guess KDE, use smbclient
libraries to connect to the SMB share (works like an FTP session).  I
found this out when I wanted to know the same thing.

HTH
Amul

On our internal wiki I have some tips:

-Look up NetBIOS Services
smbclient -L HOSTNAME -U DOMAIN/username

Where HOSTNAME is the NetBIOS Hostname (aka Samba Hostname) or the
host's IP address.

-Conenct to a Windows Share like its an FTP session
smbclient -U NA/username //HOST/share

-Connecting to a Windows Share
mount -t smbfs -o username=USERNAME/DOMAIN,rw //HOSTNAME/SHARE MOUNT_POINT

If you are using sudo be sure to specify your user and group IDs
otherwise the mount will be owned by the root user!

sudo mount -t smbfs -o username=USRNAME/DOMAIN,uid=`id -u`,gid=`id
-g`,rw //HOSTNAME/SHARE MOUNT_POINT
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