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dragos240

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Registered: 2009-05-23

Posts: 189

Connecting to a windows network through the terminal?

Hi,

I'm at school with my archbox and want to connect to the samba server through the terminal. I usually use GNOME on a regular basis, but I find it fun to use the terminal for things. Please tell me how I can do this.

ngoonee

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From: Between Thailand and Singapore

Registered: 2009-03-17

Posts: 7,355

Re: Connecting to a windows network through the terminal?

smbclient, smbpasswd, smbtree... basically CLI stuff from samba package.

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Wittfella

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From: Australia

Registered: 2008-05-27

Posts: 462

Re: Connecting to a windows network through the terminal?

Yeah make sure smbclient is installed and use something like:

sudo mount -t cifs //windowsbox/sharename localmountpoint -o iocharset=utf8

For "windowsbox" you might have to use the ip address unless its name resolves somehow (like in your hosts file).