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[Bob Adams]

In message
<6d4219cc0910091225y2c2ed5b6if9ab242fdb930673 at mail.gmail.com>, Tom H
<tomh0665 at gmail.com> writes
>> I am running VMWare Server 1.09 with Ubuntu 9.04 as a guest on a Windows
>> XP host.
>>
>> I want to access a windows shared folder on the host named 'Music' via
>> the Terminal, so as I can run a 'mmv' command - but I cannot figure out
>> what the correct path is.
>>
>> I can open the folder just fine in Nautilus and it tells me that the
>> path is smb://hostpc/music but if I enter that path as a cd command in
>> Terminal, the reply is that the folder does not exist.
>
>Install smbfs then mount the Windows share:
>smbmount //hostpc/music mountpoint -o user=xxx,...
>

Okay, tried that and got:-

mount error: could not resolve address for hostpc: No address associated
with hostname
No ip address specified and hostname not found

???

Instead, is there a way of running the mmv command using the file
browser?
-- 
        Bob Adams