10.04 - Desktop - browse windows network

[Chaitanya]

Your question seems to be a bit confusing

But any ways what I understood is that you want to map your network
shares that are available on windows machine and samba server on to Ubuntu
server machine. Correct me If I am wrong

In this case issue the following command as root

mount -t smbfs //<Win_IP_Address>/<Share_name> /mnt
in above example
smbfs is the file system type (-t stands for defining the filesystem type)
Win_IP_Address will be replaced with actual IP Address of your windows
machine
/mnt is the existing folder where your new file system will be mounted
which means that after mounting you would be able to see the contents of
network share in /mnt

Above is the temporary mount

if you want to mount your share permanently
open file /etc/fstab with following command

nano /etc/fstab
go to last line and add the line as follows

//(Win_IP_Address>/<Share_name> smbfs /mnt

Press Ctrl+O to save the file
Press Ctrl+X to exit from nano

and issue following command for fstab entry to take effect
mount -a

you are done go to /mnt to see the contents of shared folder

in any of the above case if you want to unmount your share you will have to
issue following commands

umount /mnt
Note : Just be out of /mnt since you can unmount folder while being in the
same

If you want to remove permanent mounting just remove entry from /etc/fstab
using nano

Chaitanya

On Sat, May 28, 2011 at 12:11 AM, william drescher
<william at techservsys.com>wrote:

> I have successfully set up samba as a server on 10.04 server version.  Now
> I want to do the opposite.  How do I set up the DESKTOP to be able to browse
> shared directories on a windows vista machine and on the samba server.  I
> can not figure out how to set the workgroup on the client.
>
> help please
>
> bill
>
>
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