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12-13-2002, 10:17 AM #1
jmarshMember Registered: Dec 2002Posts: 129
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Mapping a network drive in linux
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running linux red hat 8.0. i am trying to map anetwork drive from my linux box to a microsoftwindows 2000 file server. does anybody know how ican do this? i am fairly new to linux so any helpwould be great. thanks
12-13-2002, 10:23 AM #2
ThymoxSenior Member Registered: Apr 2001Location: Cornwall, England.Distribution: Debian + UbuntuPosts: 4,345
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Sorry? Is there something on your Linux machinethat you want to share with your Windowsmachine? If so, then you will need to take a look atsomething called SAMBA. It should come as adefault part of your RedHat 8.0 setup.
If, however, you are trying to access something onthe Windows machine, then you do not 'map anetwork drive' - Windows uses drives, Linux doesnot - you mount the share. Again, reading a littleon Samba will help you enormously here.
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12-13-2002, 10:24 AM #3
SyncrmMember Registered: Aug 2001Location: Lansing, MichiganDistribution: slackware8+Posts: 472
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you're looking for samba.
search this forum... there's quite a bit of info hereabout samba.
12-13-2002, 10:26 AM #4
SyncrmMember Registered: Aug 2001Location: Lansing, MichiganDistribution: slackware8+Posts: 472
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12-13-2002, 10:30 AM #5
jmarshMember Registered: Dec 2002Posts: 129
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i am reading about samba right now. can somebodygive me a little heads up on how to mount a share?
12-13-2002, 10:31 AM #6
ThymoxSenior Member Registered: Apr 2001Location: Cornwall, England.Distribution: Debian + UbuntuPosts: 4,345
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From the command line:
mount -t smbfs //servername/share/mnt/mountpoint
12-13-2002, 10:52 AM #7
joeca12Member Registered: Dec 2002Posts: 41
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I have Samba setup. I am able to see my Linux boxfrom the windows end of things. Now I am trying tomount a drive on my linux box. I am trying to mounta W2K server. So I typed the command mount -tsmbfs //servername/share /dev/hda1. It promptsme for a password and then says "cannot mount on/dev/hda1: Not a directory smbnt failed 1
What am I doing wrong???
12-13-2002, 10:57 AM #8
ThymoxSenior Member Registered: Apr 2001Location: Cornwall, England.Distribution: Debian + UbuntuPosts: 4,345
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What? //servername/share is the Win2k end ofthings. If your Windows machine is called BOB andthe share is called MUSIC, then you'd have//BOB/MUSIC. The /mnt/mountpoint is where youwant to access the files. I would have it as/mnt/bob/music... so that you know whichcomputer and which share it is. Thus, you wouldhave:
mount -t smbfs //BOB/MUSIC /mnt/bob/music
You would never use /dev/hda1 as your mountpoint! That is the 1st partition on your 1stharddrive on your local machine... ie your Linuxmachine!
Note: you would need to create (as root) thedirectory /mnt/bob and the subdirectory/mnt/bob/music before you tried to mount theshare else you would get the same error.
12-13-2002, 11:00 AM #9
joeca12Member Registered: Dec 2002Posts: 41
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Thanks I was putting my servername in and share Iwas just using that as an example. Thank you foryour help.
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12-13-2002, 11:04 AM #10
jmarshMember Registered: Dec 2002Posts: 129
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i typed this mount -t nfs //myservername/myshared drive /mnt/users
i am getting this error: directory to mount not inhost:dir format
what is this error and how can i fix it?
12-13-2002, 11:11 AM #11
ThymoxSenior Member Registered: Apr 2001Location: Cornwall, England.Distribution: Debian + UbuntuPosts: 4,345
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Err... JMarsh, you would use -t nfs when you aretrying to access 'shares' from a Linux machine to aLinux machine. If you are using Windows in anyway, you need to use -t smbfs
If you want to use nfs to share stuff between *nixmachines, then you need to read up on thatinstead. You would need [b]mount -t nfsx.x.x.x:/dirname /mnt/mountpoint[/i] in this case,where x.x.x.x is the ip address of the machine (youcan use hostnames too), and /dirname is thedirectory on the host machine, and/mnt/mountpoint is where you want to accessthem from on your local machine.
12-13-2002, 12:08 PM #12
jmarshMember Registered: Dec 2002Posts: 129
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i was able to get it working with the -t smbfscommand. thanks alot all for your help
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