How Do I Mount A Drive In Samba

[Sir_Siddy]

I need to share one of my drives across the network. I configured samba to be on my windows workgroup, but what command do you use to mount the a drive so it can be shared. Also is there a way to turn off the need to type in a user and password to access the drive?

Im using Ubuntu 7.4

Edited April 25, 2007 by Sir_Siddy

[shanenin]

are you trying to mount your linux drive from windows, or your windows drive from linux?

edit added later//

If you want to mount your windows share. You need to make a directory to mount(attach) it to. Then you need to mount it. This will keep it mounted until you reboot

this first command will make a directory called "win" in your home directory

mkdir ~/win

this command should mount it to that newly made directory.

mount -t smbfs -o username=shane,password="" //marsala/backup /home/shane/win

"username" is referring to my windows login name

"password" is referring to my windows password. I don't have one set, so I have nothing inbetween the quotes

//marsala/backup "marsala" is my windows computer name, "backup" is the share name

"/home/shane/win" is the directory I am mounting it to

If this works for you, you can automate this by modifing your fstab file.

It would not surprise my if ubuntu has a gui tool that will do this also. i have never used it, so I am not sure.

Edited April 25, 2007 by shanenin