Browsing Windows from Linux

[Christopher Robison]

I use "mount -t smbfs ...." for this, mounting the share like a disk device.
You then cd to the mount point, and you see the files (and can edit them,
etc) in there.

Is there a better way?

  --eeyore



----- Original Message -----
From: Wendy in AZ <wendywds at home.com>
To: Samba Forum <samba at us5.samba.org>
Sent: Thursday, December 28, 2000 6:54 PM
Subject: Browsing Windows from Linux


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> Samba has been running fine, and I can get from the Win2000 machines
> to the Linux machine easily with the explorer.  I can edit the text
> files in Notepad, and save them back to the Linux machine, etc.
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> Using the Linux machine I can use smbclient file://pc2/documents and enter
> a password to look around at the files.
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> But how do I get to the files on the Win2000 machine from Linux
> without smbclient?  For example, use vi to edit a file?
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> I've been through 'Using Samba' a couple of times, but it mostly
> concentrates on using files on the Samba server from a Windows
> machine.  If it's in there, I missed it.
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> I'm sure this is simple...
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> Wendy in Chandler, AZ
> wendywds *at* home *dot* com
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