Daniel,

Check out this site.

http://www.justlinux.com/nhf/Filesystems/Mounting_smbfs_Shares_Permanently.h
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It got me going.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Brian Cluff <brian@Snaptek.com>
> Subject: Re: Trouble with Samba
> 
> Daniel McAferty wrote:
> > I am trying to set up Samba on RedHat 8.
> > I want to mount a drive on a PC file server to
> > my linux server, Is this possible with samba?
> > I can't find any doco to go this direction, only sharing 
> > linux dirs to PC. Please point me in right direction.
> 
> What you are looking for is the command smbmount, the regular mount 
> command can also mount smb shares, but it just acts as a wrapper for 
> smbmount.
> Mounting can be as simple as:
> smbmount //computername/share /mnt
> Although you should look through the man page for smbmount to 
> make sure 
> that you have some options set correctly.  Of particualar 
> interest will 
> be the uid, gid, username, password (if you plan to put it in 
> the fstab) 
> and probably fmask/dmask options.
> you'll end up with something like (Using the der.hans variable 
> convention :):
> smbmount //anka/c /mnt -o uid=fred,gid=fred,username=fred
> that will prompt you for freds's password and mount drive c on the 
> machine named anka on linux directory /mnt
> 
> Brian Cluff
> 
>