Comments on: Access Windows Shares from Linux

By: Ben

Ben — Mon, 25 Jan 2010 03:23:10 +0000

mount -t smbfs didn’t work for me on Fedora 7.
The solution is to use: mount -t cifs

By: Chingson

Chingson — Sat, 24 Oct 2009 10:52:31 +0000

I’ve seen so many distributions, there is no one can browse share [though nautilus does, but .. open file in windows share with nautilus is .. nightmare ] or “create a share” like genuine Windows..Just by right mouse click..

By: matt

matt — Mon, 05 Oct 2009 04:24:25 +0000

This helped out a lot. Thanks!

By: Vivek Gite

Vivek Gite — Wed, 24 Jun 2009 04:57:52 +0000

read mount man page, it has all info.
man mount

By: Alex D

Alex D — Tue, 23 Jun 2009 21:34:06 +0000

Would someone be so kind as to explain what the:

auto,gid=users,fmask=0664,dmask=0775,iocharset=iso8859-15

part of the fstab is for.

New to Linux, please assume I’m stupid.

By: homer

homer — Mon, 23 Feb 2009 03:35:49 +0000

Did the above, mount is there, I can acces it, but I can’t dump it to tape
using the dump command.?

Homer

By: carpii

carpii — Mon, 26 Jan 2009 11:49:47 +0000

The ‘fmask’ and ‘dmask’ smbfs options are deprecated

Use file_mode and dir_mode instead

By: Dan

Dan — Tue, 17 Jun 2008 00:05:22 +0000

Just to let you know – if you put a space with the equals sign in your credentials file, like this:

username = someuser
password = somepass

it will error out ‘permission denied’

You HAVE to have no spaces on each line like this:

username=someuser
password=somepass