mount windows share

[Seann Clark]

Anne Wilson wrote:
> On Monday 28 July 2008 19:36:33 David Hláčik wrote:
>   
>> Thanks, but this unfortunately did not solved my problem.
>>
>> Regards,
>>
>> David
>>
>> On Mon, Jul 28, 2008 at 8:10 PM, Armin <feng.shaun at gmail.com> wrote:
>>     
>>> On Monday 28 July 2008 15:02:37 David Hláčik wrote:
>>>       
>>>> Hello, how to mount windows share from Fedora 9 ?
>>>>
>>>> using places ... connect to server ... does not work becouse of :
>>>>  - can't display location smb:// ... no application registered to hande
>>>> this request.
>>>>
>>>> Thanks for help!
>>>>
>>>> David
>>>>         
>>> I'm not sure, but try installing 'samba' (without quotes).
>>>
>>> $ su -c 'yum install samba'
>>>
>>>       
> Did you, as root, edit /etc/samba/smb.conf?
>
> It's well-commented, and much can be left as defaults - probably best to, 
> unless you know what you are doing - but you must rename the workgroup to 
> match the windows one.
>
> HTH
>
> Anne
>
>   
I am rather amazed, I am not seeing the new 'documented' way of doing 
this (I learned the hard way to command line it)

For a full mount:
mount -t cifs //yourwindows/share /mnt/windows_share
--or--
mount -t cifs //yourwindows/share /mnt/windows_share -ouser=joeuser


both work on mounting on most systems (I use that command to mount my 
media files for playback on my PS3 so I can watch movies from my network 
on my TV) and it works well...

Not as quick as a GUI option, but it works.

For mounting a linux share in Windows, that is where you would really 
use the Samba Server, and get the joy of configuring shares in smb.conf. 
All depends on what direction you want to go. Looking at the list 
replies it looks like they are talking of mounting a share in Windows...


~Seann