Mounting network drives

John Kloian plug-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us
Tue, 29 Jan 2002 22:44:02 -0700 (US Mountain Standard Time)


If I remember right in order to speak NT they both need a machine trust
account.  I cannot remember the exact syntax here becasue its been awhile
but checkout this page http://us1.samba.org/samba/docs/FAQ

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On Tue, 29 Jan 2002, Kevin Brown wrote:

>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
>> Visit my home page at http://achtenberg.com
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