Connecting to Windows Network via VPN
Les Mikesell
lesmikesell at gmail.com
Sat Jun 10 19:28:33 UTC 2006
On Sat, 2006-06-10 at 13:38, Bill Polhemus wrote:
> Derek Jander wrote:
> > mount -t smbfs //server_name/share_name /mnt/whatever -o
> > username=username,password=password
> >
> > If it doesn't work try to find the smbclient package and install it.
> Thanks. This is odd, but although I have the samba-client rpm installed,
> when I try to mount with the smbfs filesystem type, it comes back and
> tells me "mount: unknown filesystem type 'smbfs'."
>
> Any ideas?
smbclient is a user-level ftp like program - not very handy but
good for testing connectivity and options. The new/improved
filesystem type is cifs.
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Les Mikesell
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