[H-GEN] Sharing folders on SMB - Mandrake 9.2

[Sandra Milne]

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Rick Phillips wrote:
> (b)  Mount the share by trying 
>      mount -t smbfs /mnt/SharedDocs /static.address.of.xpmachine/folder

Shouldn't that be:

mount -t smbfs //IP.of.xp.machine/sharename /mnt/SharedDocs

alternatively, use smbmount:

smbmount //IP.of.xp.machine /mnt/SharedDocs

Sandra.
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