Samba howto - connecting from linux

Credits once again go to www.raqpak.com (site offline) for this. Its targeted towards Cobalt users, but it could be applicable to anyone on a linux machine trying to access a windows resource. I included it mainly for my own reference here, although I suppose I could compliment it with the counterpart - how to setup a Samba share on Cobalt / BlueQuartz / Linux for windows users to access


Mount a windows NT/2000/98 path

If you want to mount a windows filesystem onto your Qube3 use the following command:

mount -t smbfs -o username=theuser,password=thepass //servername/sharename /home/groups/home/network

Change username/password as required (If you dont need to authenticate, remove the entry and the -o option parameter completely)
Create the directory you want to mount the drive to, so in the above example create /home/groups/home/network first then do the mount statement.

If possible, before a reboot or shutdown, do a:
umount /home/groups/home/network
otherwise the reboot will take longer as it unmounts the system itself.

(For this to work i'm assuming you've configured your network file sharing/workgroup stuff correctly as its all related)