Oops. I made a mistake here. Your space after the /c is correct. The smbclient needs a mount point as an arguement. I am, however in question as to weather you are offering your entire hard drive (windows) as a shared drive or a folder? Mark On Sat, 22 Apr 2000, Mark B Withers wrote: | Rod: | | here is a reason why your smbmount command doesn't work. | | | smbmount //192.168.244.xxx/c /thes | | I believe it is because of the space between /c and /thes. | | Another thing which you may want to consider. When sharing a folder on | a Windows machine, you need not specify the hard drive letter unless | it is the entire hard drive itself you are sharing on the windows | machine. For instance If I were to allow on my windows machine the | c:\shared directory (folder) to be shared, I can set a username and | password for it as well. Then on the linux box to mount the shared | windows folder I would type: | | smbmount //192.168.244.xxx/shared /thes | | | If I try `smbmount //Thespia/c /thes', I get the response `Thespia: | | unknown host' | | You have to specify an entry in /etc/hosts so that your linux system | will be able to resolve the server name to an ip address such as: | | 192.168.244.xxx Thespia | | Otherwise your system has no way to query a DNS server to resolve the | Thespia name to an ip address. | | Hope this helps! | | Mark | | | -- | To unsubscribe send e-mail to suse-linux-e-unsubscribe@suse.com | For additional commands send e-mail to suse-linux-e-help@suse.com | Also check the FAQ at http://www.suse.com/Support/Doku/FAQ/ | | -- To unsubscribe send e-mail to suse-linux-e-unsubscribe@suse.com For additional commands send e-mail to suse-linux-e-help@suse.com Also check the FAQ at http://www.suse.com/Support/Doku/FAQ/