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whaevr

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Registered: 2008-03-17

Posts: 182

How to access a samba share?

Hi everyone
I tried setting up a diskless folding comp to push out a few more PPD, which I did succesfully. On my windows comp when I go to Network Places I can see it in the group "Diskless"

I downloaded fahmon to see if I could monitor it, and all I had to do was type "\\Fold-2cb9\c\etc\folding\1\" for client location and I could monitor it on the windows comp...how would I veiw it from my Linux machine?

Zeist

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Registered: 2008-07-04

Posts: 532

Re: How to access a samba share?

mount -t smbfs -o username=<username> -o password=<password> //<computer>/<share> /<mountpoint>

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whaevr

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Registered: 2008-03-17

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Re: How to access a samba share?

I tried that and it didn't work...

I used this command:

 sudo mount -t smbfs //Fold-2cb9/c ~/Fold

and this is what I got

Error connecting to 63.251.179.32 (Connection refused)
4099: Connection to Fold-2cb9 failed
SMB connection failed

Edit:
I downloaded smbnetfs and ran "smbnetfs ~/Fold/" and now I can browse through everything! Although for some reason I can't open the "Fold" folder in Thunar as soon as I try it, Thunar immediately kicks me out back into the home directory. Then I tried to type the address in Thunar's address bar and when I hit enter the folder disappeared Although when I looked at my home directory through Firefox I could see it was still there and I could browse through everything...bug maybe?

Ah well..I'm happy

Last edited by whaevr (2008-07-23 16:46:26)

kclive18

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From: Columbus, Ohio, USA

Registered: 2008-05-08

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Re: How to access a samba share?

@whaevr:  You need to install gamin in order for Thunar to open remote directories.  I remember this happening to me when I tried to access a directory in Thunar via SSHFS.  Also, make sure to blacklist fam in the DAEMONS section of /etc/rc.conf.

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whaevr

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Registered: 2008-03-17

Posts: 182

Re: How to access a samba share?

@whaevr:  You need to install gamin in order for Thunar to open remote directories.  I remember this happening to me when I tried to access a directory in Thunar via SSHFS.  Also, make sure to blacklist fam in the DAEMONS section of /etc/rc.conf.

Thanks! I installed gamin and I can access it with thunar now! There should be a note of this somewhere...

No reason to blacklist fam either as installing gamin removes fam.