smbmount can mount Samba shares from the command line. The command
itself gives quite a bit of help and then, of course, there is the man
page.
If your friend is strictly in a command line environment (no X
running) then there isn't any way to view graphics files.
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On Jan 14, 2009, at 2:55 AM, Tuna wrote:
> So here's the dealio.
>
> As many of you know, I happen to attend an online high school. This
> allows a great deal of flexibility. When I'm vacationing somewhere, I
> can just SSH back home and access all my files. I can get a
> half-finished paper from my desktop, work on it some more, and turn
> it in.
>
> However, this year I am taking a C++ course. For many of the
> assignments, I have to use Visual Studio. I have made the Visual
> Studio
> 2008 dir on my Windows box a Samba share, but I only know how to
> access
> those using a nice pretty file manager such as Konquerer or whatever
> that one in GNOME is called. I would like to fix that.
>
> How do I access Samba shares with the command line? It is driving me
> mad, not only the idea of not being able to access my code if I am
> to go
> on a surprise vacation to California or whatever, but also having one
> more reason why I can't just go totally CLI (I'm getting there
> though).
>
> Oh, and while I'm on the topic of CLI, a friend of mine for some odd
> reason is stuck in a command line environment. He would greatly
> appreciate being able to simply view images again. If anyone knows of
> some way to view .jpg's and .png's from the command line, please reply
> with such info off-list.
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