Mounting network drives

[Robert A. Klahn]

You want something like:

mount -t smbfs -o username=tom,password=foobar //mutt/d$ /chow

To mount it al-la smbfs (a.k.a. Windows Network File System).

This is, however, a tad odd in the UNIX world. (Mounting a remote UNIX drive via smbfs to a UNIX client)

What you probably really want to do is add the server directory to the /etc/exports file on the server (do a "man exports" for the format) (*), then mount the file system via NFS (vice smbfs), like:

mount chow:/chow /chow

Mount will figure out that the file system type is NFS from the <hostname>:<filesystem> format of the special file. Add a "-t nfs" to the mount if things are still not working, but you should not have to do this.

Good Luck. 

Bob.

(*) After modifying the /etc/exports file, you will want to restart the NFS server. In RedHat, the best way to do this is a:

su -
cd /etc/rc5.d
./S25netfs restart
exit

On Tue, 29 Jan 2002 22:19:59 -0700
"Tom Achtenberg" <tom@ybnormal.org> 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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