Mounting network drives

[Kevin Brown]

try:

man smbmount

part of the samba package.

> Tom Achtenberg wrote:
> 
> I've been trying for two evenings now to figure out how to mount or connect to
> network drives.  Here is my setup:  RH 7.2 workstation kernel 2.4.9-latest
> I want to connect to a RH 7.1 (e-smith) server server name chow  i-bay name
> chow.  It also has a user folder named tom.
> 
> I also want to connect to an NT40 server named mutt with both drive c and d
> shared as c$ and d$
> 
> Whenever I try the mount command such as mount chow:/chow /chow I get "error
> connection refused"  Whenever I try mount -t vfat mutt:/d$ /chow  I get an
> error message "special device does not exist"  With both my Win98 and Win2K
> machines I can map drives to both the chow and tom folders with no problem.
> 
> If I try to access the e-smith i-bay file folder with a  browser I get an
> error saying I am not authorized to access it yet I can access the html folder
> and open the default index.html page.  I am logged in as root and root has the
> same password on both machines but the i-bay is set to be shared on the local
> network without a password.
> 
> I cannot even connect to the i-bay with ftp.
> 
> I know some of you guys are running e-smith's out there, any suggestions?
> 
> 
> Tom Achtenberg
> 
> Registered Linux User #242974 (See http://counter.li.org
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