Mounting network drives

[Ken Scott]

[snip]
you said:

 >mount -t vfat mutt:/d$ /chow

try changing the "vfat" option to "msdos"

if your NT drives are NTFS (I can't remember the option name but it's in 
"man mount"), you'll only be able to get read-only access.





At 12:19 AM 1/30/02 , 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
>
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