SMBMOUNT?-Solved

[James Gray]

On Mon, 18 Feb 2008 02:07:29 pm Leonard Chatagnier wrote:

> Well thanks Nick. Oh, dumb is me. Thought that /mnt
> was just a command and /media/samba was the dir.  It
> worked afer creating the dir /mnt/media/samba. Thanks
> for leading the blind and dumb.

Just for clarification; there's nothing magical about moint-points.  They are 
simply empty directories where you wish to include a filesystem in the 
directory tree.  As all trees have roots (in our case '/') that is the 
highest level you can mount a filesystem (given the special name of 'root 
filesystem'...duh :P)

The root file system my be the only filesystem or it could just be a basic 
boot-strap with mount-points for many other file systems.  Confused yet?  
Either way, this whole "there are no drive letters, only a tree" is one of 
the harder things for people transitioning from "other" operating systems to 
get their head around. :)  Once you nail this, a lot of things start to make 
more sense - espeically the  "why" things are done a particular way, not just 
the "how".

Cheers,

James
-- 
Good day for a change of scene.  Repaper the bedroom wall.
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