mounting windows clients

[Storm Jumper]

hi greg,

hope i'm not being presumptious,
but you sound like you're trying to mount
your shares to /mnt.

in the distribution i use, Peanut Linux 9.0,
the floppy and cdrom are mounted at
/mnt/floppy and /mnt/cdrom respectively,
so when /mnt is mounted, they will be lost.

what you can try is to create a few more directories
(ie. mount point)
in /mnt, eg /mnt/c, or /mnt/remote1, or /mnt/samba, etc
then try mounting your samba shares to them,

eg mount -t smbfs //storm1/c /mnt/samba/c

is what i usually do.


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----- Original Message -----
From: "Greg Conway" <greg at gmlnt.com>
To: "Samba" <samba at lists.samba.org>
Sent: Tuesday, October 30, 2001 5:22 AM
Subject: RE: mounting windows clients


> 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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