[Samba] smbmount and WindowsXP

[Kurt Pfeifle]

Urban Widmark wrote on samba-digest:

 > Message: 10
 > Date: Tue, 17 Sep 2002 19:35:59 +0200 (CEST)
 > From: Urban Widmark <urban at teststation.com>
 > To: Helder Miguel Rodrigues <hmgr at dhis.org>
 > Cc: samba at lists.samba.org
 > Subject: Re: [Samba] smbmount and WindowsXP
 >
 > On Sat, 14 Sep 2002, Helder Miguel Rodrigues wrote:
 >
 >
 > > Hello!
 > > Im trying to mount the ADMIN$ share of my windows XP and i cant!
 >
 > Is that really a file share?
 >
 > > ./smbmount "\\\\192.168.0.18\\ADMIN$" /mnt/laptop/ -o
 > > username=Administrator password=mypassword
 >
 > That should be:
 > username=Administrator,password=mypassword

Also, escaping the "$" wouldn't harm, probably....

  ./smbmount //192.168.0.18/ADMIN\$ /mnt/laptop/ -o username=Administrator,password=mypassword

But to access "administrative" shares in WinXP is not the same as
in NT. You need to specially allow this on the XP side...