[NBLUG/talk] Samba connection question

Todd Cary todd at aristesoftware.com
Fri Feb 20 13:25:01 PST 2004


Mark -

Seems I have either confused Fedora or me or both:

I ran

# smbmnt /home/todd/1tmp -s 1tmp

Where 1tmp is a ShareName.  A directory was created, but now I cannot 
remove it.

The command, "smbumount 1tmp" will not remove it.

Is there a way to remove the directory?

Todd

Mark Street wrote:

>Is the 1Tmp directory being shared by Windoze?
>smbclient -L
>If so, you could run;
>
>smbclient //Blue-Thunder/1Tmp
>
>This would open up an interface much like ftp to put and get files from the 
>share.  FAT32 only though.  If NTFS you may have to recompile a module for 
>ntfs for Read Only access - Red Hat doesn't include the ntfs module in their 
>standard kernel.  Write is a bit wobbly... don't use it.
>
>Also you can use smbmount to mount the share directly to your filesystem...
>
>man smbmount.
>
>smbmount //Blue-Thunder/1Tmp /mnt/BT1Tmp
>
>I use an example of this in my class where I mount one of the kid's shared 
>windows CD-ROM's onto my web directory of my Linux box and access it from the 
>web.
>
>On Friday 20 February 2004 11:11 am, Todd Cary wrote:
>  
>
>>I have Samba on my Fedora box that I use extensively to view the files
>>on the Linux box via my Win 2K system...great piece of software.  What I
>>have never dione is go the other way: get data from the Windoze while in
>>Linux.  Let's say that I am in my home directory ( /home/todd ) and I
>>want to copy a file from the Windoz bx to my home dir, what is the
>>syntax?  My Windoz box is "Blue-Thunder" and I have a directory,
>>"d:\1Tmp\".
>>
>>Todd
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>>
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