Seeing my Windows drives in Mandrivaa 2008
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| Author | Content |
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| poscomp Aug 25, 2008 9:20 PM EDT |
I know I'm attached to the network because I installed 2 printers from the network and they work. I can't get the drives attached so I can copy files and software to my Linux maachine. Can anyone help me? |
| dinotrac Aug 25, 2008 9:34 PM EDT |
Are you using the cifs kernel module? If you are, it should be a simple matter of doing something sort of like this: mount windowssharename -u username/passwd mount point though you'll want to do a man mount or google on Linux cifs to get it right. |
| jdixon Aug 25, 2008 9:53 PM EDT |
Are these IP based printers or Windows network printers? If they're IP, then your Windows networking might still be messed up. You can print to an IP address without ever once touching the Windows networking. So, is samba configured for your network? > mount windowssharename -u username/passwd mount point I thought the syntax was -o username=uvw password=xyz? Hmm, man mount.cifs seems to indicate that the -o option is still correct? You might also have to add a -t smbfs or a -t cifs in there. |
| DiBosco Aug 26, 2008 8:05 AM EDT |
In 2008.x you can use mount -t smbfs or smbmount smbmount //remotemachinename/directoryname /localdirtectorypath_and_name You can do the above as user. I am pretty sure that you would do the following as root: mount -t smbfs //remotemachinename/directoryname /localdirtectorypath_and_name -o username=youusername,passwd=yourpassword I think I am right in saying that 2009 no longer supports smbmount (which displeases me) and you will have to use -t cifs |
| dinotrac Aug 26, 2008 9:05 AM EDT |
DiBosco and jdixon - Smbfs has been around for years and is very familiar, but you really shouldn't use it anymore - with one exception, I believe. The kernel module cifs is better, more performant, more robust. The exception I'm aware of, and this may not be an exception any more, is if you need kerberos authentication. |
| DiBosco Aug 26, 2008 9:14 AM EDT |
Thanks, dino. Do you know of a way to mount shares without having to be root now smbmount is obsolete? (Yes, I know I could put them in fstab, but that means storing passwords in it. With smbmount the user can enter her password at run time.) |
| gus3 Aug 26, 2008 11:49 AM EDT |
Quoting:With smbmount the user can enter her password at run time.Same with mount.cifs. Its man page is rich in detail: http://linux.die.net/man/8/mount.cifs |
| jdixon Aug 26, 2008 12:47 PM EDT |
> Smbfs has been around for years and is very familiar, but you really shouldn't use it anymore... Sigh, they keep changing things on me. You'd think they'd just make -t smbfs call -t cifs, since apparently it will accept the old option formats. :( > 2009 no longer supports smbmount (which displeases me) ... Yeah. Personally I always had more luck with smbmount than with mount -t smbfs. I have no idea why. I'll have to test things out at home and see how cifs works. |
| dinotrac Aug 26, 2008 1:00 PM EDT |
>I'll have to test things out at home and see how cifs works. I've been really pleased with it. It's helping me out with a major jam involving all of the voodoo done under the hood of EMC Celerras. Yahoo Samba guys. |
| DiBosco Aug 26, 2008 1:35 PM EDT |
@Gus Cheers, will give mount.cifs a go. |
| jdixon Oct 21, 2008 6:40 AM EDT |
Spammers. Die, die, die! Added: I see the editors are being vigilant as usual. :) |
| tuxchick Oct 21, 2008 9:40 AM EDT |
I thought Mandriva had a pointy-clicky way to do all this. |
| jdixon Oct 21, 2008 2:19 PM EDT |
> I thought Mandriva had a pointy-clicky way to do all this. If Mandriva offered a point and click way to kill spammers, it'd take over the world in no time. :) Oh, you mean to mount drives. :( Probably. The Mandriva tools are pretty comprehensive. |
| Scott_Ruecker Oct 21, 2008 3:59 PM EDT |
yeah, I ripped out the spam. |
| tracyanne Oct 21, 2008 6:55 PM EDT |
Quoting:I thought Mandriva had a pointy-clicky way to do all this Well I always manage to do it with the pointy clicky thingo |
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