10.04 - Desktop - browse windows network

[william drescher]

On 5/27/2011 2:54 PM, Chaitanya wrote:
> Your question seems to be a bit confusing

I am looking at replacing some windows machines with Ubuntu 
desktop machines.
example 1:
What I want is the equivalent of windows explorer:  The ability, 
from the _desktop_ version of ubuntu to look at the shared 
directories on windows machines and/or the samba exported shares 
on a ubuntu server.  I do not want permanent mounts.

example2:
I have a large group of music files on a windows machine and some 
on a ubuntu server.  Using MusicBox I want to be able to access 
those files (eg: import a folder).

I do not want to mount the windows folders as shares on the 
ubuntu _server_.

Thanks

>
> 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 <mailto: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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