Long Time Samba No Work-Need Expert Help On Samba/Networking

[Karl Auer]

On Sun, 2007-07-22 at 22:16 -0700, Leonard Chatagnier wrote:
> Ok, good but which appropriate clients cus I ain't
> knowing them.

You are using the right ones already - things like mount.smbfs and so
on.

> I actually want to access either machine from the
> other.

Well, then you *do* need samba :-) But not yet - concentrate on getting
one or the other working first, it's confusing when you try to do two
things at once :-)

> No, this is the windows hard drive share as I intended
> it to be.

No, "//pavilion8370/c$" is the windows hard drive share (allegedly, I
don't know if that is true). "/mnt/C$" is what you specified as the
mount point - that is, the point *on your linux box* where the windows
share will be mounted. And it does have to exist.

> Now this is interesting. Didn't know I had to create a
> mount point in the /mnt directory for smbmount to
> work. Perhaps this is my problem. I just don't know
> these things.  Please verify.

Well, if /mnt/C$ didn't exist, then it was definitely a problem. At very
least it would be the cause of the "Can't resolve mount point" issue.
You don't have to create a subdirectory - you can just use /mnt, but if
you are planning to mount more than one thing at a time it makes sense
to set up appropriate subdirectories as mount points.

> Smbclient -L listed both "c" and "C$" which I assumed
> are both representations of the hard drive root
> directory.  But I could be wrong.

I don't know. Best to use a share that you set up deliberately, and
preferably without special characters in its name. Maybe someone with
more windows knowledge than me can tell us what C$ is?

> You did help me solve the netmask issue for the WXP
> machine

Really?!? What was the solution?

Regards, K.

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