Thanks Ronan for pointing me in the right direction. Your suggestions
worked. I did have to leave the password parameter off of the command,
because the "&" character in my password wasn't getting interpreted
correctly by the mount command. I just let the mount command prompt me
for the password after issuing it. Worked like a champ. Thanks again.
Vince
On Thu, 2002-11-07 at 04:51, Ronan Heffernan wrote:
> > I would like to be able to access shared files/folders on the
> > Windows 2000 PC and also the printer on that machine with my RH Linux
> > system on the laptop. What's the best and easiest way to do this? I
> > know a little about Samba, but am not an expert in it by any means. Is
> > Samba the route to go or is there an easier way to share files and
> > printers between my systems?
> >
>
> Samba is the package that you use to make your Linux computer share its
> files and printers via the SMB protocol. You want the opposite, where
> Linux is the client and Windows is the server. You can mount a Windows
> share with something like:
>
> mount -t smbfs -o username=tridge,password=foobar //fjall/test /data/test
>
>
> There is a utility called smbspool which will let you send print jobs
> from Linux to a Windows-shared printer. Look at the smbspool man page
> for details.
>
> --ronan
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