Your question seems to be a bit confusing<div><br></div><div>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</div>
<div><br></div><div>In this case issue the following command as root</div><div><br></div><div>mount -t smbfs //<Win_IP_Address>/<Share_name> /mnt</div><div>in above example</div><div>smbfs is the file system type (-t stands for defining the filesystem type)</div>
<div>Win_IP_Address will be replaced with actual IP Address of your windows machine</div><div>/mnt is the existing folder where your new file system will be mounted</div><div>which means that after mounting you would be able to see the contents of network share in /mnt</div>
<div><br></div><div>Above is the temporary mount</div><div><br></div><div>if you want to mount your share permanently</div><div>open file /etc/fstab with following command</div><div><br></div><div>nano /etc/fstab</div><div>
go to last line and add the line as follows</div><div><br></div><div>//(Win_IP_Address>/<Share_name> smbfs /mnt</div><div><br></div><div>Press Ctrl+O to save the file</div><div>Press Ctrl+X to exit from nano</div>
<div><br></div><div>and issue following command for fstab entry to take effect</div><div>mount -a</div><div><br></div><div>you are done go to /mnt to see the contents of shared folder</div><div><br></div><div>in any of the above case if you want to unmount your share you will have to issue following commands</div>
<div><br></div><div>umount /mnt</div><div>Note : Just be out of /mnt since you can unmount folder while being in the same</div><div><br></div><div>If you want to remove permanent mounting just remove entry from /etc/fstab using nano</div>
<div><br></div><div>Chaitanya</div><div><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sat, May 28, 2011 at 12:11 AM, william drescher <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:william@techservsys.com">william@techservsys.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">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.<br>
<br>
help please<br>
<br>
bill<br><font color="#888888">
<br>
<br>
-- <br>
ubuntu-users mailing list<br>
<a href="mailto:ubuntu-users@lists.ubuntu.com" target="_blank">ubuntu-users@lists.ubuntu.com</a><br>
Modify settings or unsubscribe at: <a href="https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-users" target="_blank">https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-users</a><br>
</font></blockquote></div><br><br clear="all"><br>-- <br><br>Chaitanya Parekh<br>Enjay - Bhilad<br>
</div>