[NBLUG/talk] Samba connection question

[Todd Cary]

Finally did it!

# umount /home/todd/1tmp
# rm -fdr /home/todd/1tmp

Not exactly sure why it worked, but it is gone!

Todd

Todd Cary wrote:

> 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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