mounting windows clients

[Greg Conway]

Hi Keith,

Many thanks, this is exactly what I was looking for.

One further question though, unless this is better directed to the red hat
group....

I can mount the drive I want to backup as follows:

mount -t smbfs -o username=greg //greglaptop/c$ /mnt

which prompts me for a password and mounts the drive at /mnt, which is great
but it knocks out my CD ROMs and floppy drive!

If I try to mount the drive anywhere else, I get an error:

Could not resolve mount point /mnt/c

man mount suggests I may need to add drive information into /etc/fstab, but
I don't want the link to be permanent.

Instead, I plan to add various lines into my backup routine along these
lines....

mount drive #1
tar data
unmount drive #2
mount drive #2
tar data
unmount drive #2
etc

Any ideas on this, or just a simple 'sod off to the redhat group'??!! (or
maybe use smbmount!)

Having developed what skills I do possess largely on co-located linux
servers, I haven't done a lot of (virtual) mounting before!!

Thanks though, this was just the ticket.

Regards,

Greg.


> -----Original Message-----
> From: samba-admin at lists.samba.org [mailto:samba-admin at lists.samba.org]On
> Behalf Of Keith G. Murphy
> Sent: 29 October 2001 16:32
> To: Samba
> Subject: Re: mounting windows clients
>
>
> Greg Conway wrote:
> >
> > > Hi all,
> > >
> > > Quick question...
> > >
> > > I have Samba set up and running quite happily, and providing
> > > netbios shares to our network.
> > >
> > > Using Samba, can I connect to shares on other Windows machines
> > > and mount them under linux so they are available to traverse
> via linux?
> > >
> > > I ask, as I backup the machine by tar'ing up groups of files and
> > > writing them to a tape drive daily, using a simple script I
> knocked up.
> > >
> > > I want to be able to back up drives across the network by the
> > > same system, so I thought if I could simply mount these drives
> > > somehow I could include the mountpoints in my tar routine.
> > >
> > > Anybody got any advice / info / comments on what I'm trying to
> > > achieve here?
> > >
> Sure you can.  The way I do it is to use smbfs/smbmount.  Then you can
> just mount the shares pretty closely to the way you do it with your
> native Linux partitions.  From that point on you can use tar or whatever
> you want.
>
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