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Cyrusm

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From: Bozeman, MT

Registered: 2007-11-15

Posts: 1,053

Samba? connecting to a windows shared drive over a network.

So my room mate has a windows file server set up as a share drive for the home network.  It's got lots of great stuff on there (programs, games, movies etc.) that I would like to access.  can I do this with Samba and if so is there an intuitive, relatively simple way to set this up?

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Fackamato

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Registered: 2006-03-31

Posts: 579

Re: Samba? connecting to a windows shared drive over a network.

Of course. What desktop environment do you use? KDE can do it automatically, I think GNOME can as well. You need smbfs installed.

schivmeister

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From: Singapore

Registered: 2007-05-17

Posts: 971

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Re: Samba? connecting to a windows shared drive over a network.

actually if the share is for guest and does not need log in just pacman -S smbclient Normally the CLI way is: smbclient IP/share but Konqueror in KDE, together with KIO, makes that graphical with smb://IP/share as the address.

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Cyrusm

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From: Bozeman, MT

Registered: 2007-11-15

Posts: 1,053

Re: Samba? connecting to a windows shared drive over a network.

I'm using Fluxbox, so no handy automations available.  I'll try shivmeisters method and see how that goes.  also I found a wiki that might help.
http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Acc … dows_share
this information might be of use to any lurkers in the same situation.
I'll update this thread with my results if any of these work, or don't.

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Hofstadter's Law:
           It always takes longer than you expect, even when you take into account Hofstadter's Law.