[CS-FSLUG] SuSE 10.0 and monkeySoft

[Tim Young]

I do not have SuSe on my computer (I have three distros, and not one of 
them is SuSe) so I cannot speak with 100% certainty.

There are two main ways to access your windows shares from a Linux box.
The easy way, is usually through your favorite browser in the GUI mode.  
A great number of the browsers (I do not think thunderbird has it, but 
Konqueror and others have this capability.) have built-in file-sharing.  
Instead of starting the URL with http://, you use smb://
For example: "smb://win98" will connect to the computer named "win98" on 
your network.

If you do not have a GUI installed, the browser does not suppor the smb 
protocol, or if you want to simply connect to the share from the 
comandline, here is how.

You need the smb-client package.  Some distros bundle the smb-client and 
smb-server packages together.  But most keep them separate.  The main 
thing is that you need the command: smbclient

First, do a smbclient -L [computername]
that will list all the shares available on that computer.
Then you can connect to a share through the smbclient interface 
(reminiscent of ftp) by:
smbclient //[computername]/[sharename]

The last command-line approach is something you are recently familiar 
with, through "mount."
You can do it two ways:
    smbmount //[computername]/[sharename] /mntpoint
    (smbmount //adin/shareddocuments /mnt/samba)
or
    mount -t smbfs /[computername]/[sharename] /mntpoint
    (mount -t smbfs /adin/shareddocuments /mnt/samba)

Since that last one works, you can edit the /etc/fstab and have an entry 
that will automatically mount specific directories off your windows 
computers.  Just put "smbfs" for the type of mount.

One final note.  To access the share on the XP box, you will need to 
supply a valid username/password combination.  This is done by adding 
the username and password information in the options of the various 
commands.  Since each command has a different way of doing it, I will 
leave that research up to you.  But, here is where to find that information:

man smbclient
man smbmount
(the mount program calls smbmount, so the options are similar)

Hope this helps,

    - Tim Young

Wade A Smith wrote:

>>As to accessing the other computers on the network, are you asking 
>>how 
>>to look at one of the XP shares from the Linux box, or to access one 
>>of 
>>the Linux shares from the XP box?
>>    
>>
>
>I would like to access the W98SE box (HP Pavillion 510w that will NOT
>run Linux) and two XP boxes.
>
>I do not know the magic incantations to get Linux to even see a 
>computer on the home network.  When I try to put the name in
>/etc/hosts and try to access it that way, all I get is "connection 
>refused".
>
>Suggestions?
>
>  
>
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