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General Category => Software => Topic started by: Anonymous on September 11, 2002, 05:30:57 PM

Title: Connecting Linux to Win2K
Post by: Anonymous on September 11, 2002, 05:30:57 PM

I recently installed RedHat Linux 7.3 on my newest computer and I want to access some files on my Win2K machine.  I\'m fairly new to the Linux community and from what I\'ve read, I need to use Samba to do this, but I\'m having some trouble figuring it out.  I want to be able to browse my Win2K shares in KDE.  Can anyone offer some help?  Thanks.

Title: Connecting Linux to Win2K
Post by: Anonymous on September 12, 2002, 01:16:17 AM

Ok, here\'s how to do it.  You can use the Samba client, but here is how I do it:

Say you have a share called \'xyz\' on server \'foo\'.  Your account is \'Administrator\' and your password is \'abc123\'.  Here are the steps to mount this share in Linux:

1.  mkdir xyz
2.  su
3.  mount -t smbfs -o username=Administrator,password=abc123 fooxyz xyz
4.  cd xyz

Note that  = , so the amount of \'s above is correct.  Good luck.

Title: Connecting Linux to Win2K
Post by: Anonymous on September 12, 2002, 08:57:52 AM

Thank you very much!  Worked great, though I did get some errors that read

tdb_open_ex: could not open file /var/cache/samba/unexpected.tdb: No such file or directory

But it worked so I guess that\'s no big deal.  Thanks again.


Now, just because I\'m curious, how do you use the samba client to do this?