[H-GEN] SMB help please

Christopher Preston c.preston at chemistry.uq.edu.au
Thu Jul 13 23:26:31 EDT 2000


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"Grant, Luke" wrote:
> 
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> 
> hi guys,
> 
> i need a little help here with mounting an NT shared drive on linux with
> smb.
> 
> i need to mount \\10.4.22.38\downloads  using the username <joe_blo> with
> the password <secret>
> 
> and having never used smb b4 i could realy do with some syntax to kick start
> me.
> 
> i am thinking smbmount is what i should be looking for but everthing i try
> pumps us an error saying that i have not used enough "\"'s......very
> strange.
> 
> Luke

Depending on the versions of mount, and smbmount, you want something
like

mount -t smbfs -o username=joe_blo,password=secret
//10.4.22.38/downloads /mnt/point

it you want to use the "\", you want \\\\10.4.22.38\\downloads (ie.
escape each "\").

cheers
Chris

ps. mount version 2.10f, smbmount version 2.0.7. Previous versions have
different syntax. And don't forget smbfs support in the kernel.

-- 
Christopher Preston
Chemistry Department, The University of Queensland
St. Lucia, 4072
Australia

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