Newbie Questions

Urban Widmark urban at teststation.com
Tue Dec 12 10:21:26 GMT 2000


On Tue, 12 Dec 2000, Matthew Boehm wrote:

>     My second question is how can I mount a share via IP? I was able to do
> this successfully: smbmount //BLAH/shared /mnt/windows where BLAH is any
> computer under any workgroup. Lets say the IP of computer BLAH is
> 129.116.35.55. How can I use smbmount to mount the shared folder 'music' of
> that computer?

% smbmount //BLAH/music /mnt/windows -o ip=129.116.35.55

Note that you still need to specify the machine name. Details on the
ip option is in the smbmount manpage, along with other options you may
need such as workgroup, username.

/Urban





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