Re: [LUNI] sharing files between linux boxen...

From: Michael Knoop (mknoop@uic.edu)
Date: Thu Mar 29 2001 - 13:42:16 CST

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    At 10:49 AM 3/29/01 -0800, you wrote:
    >i'm trying to share files between two linux boxen, but
    >am not sure where to begin. i'm well aware of ftp,
    >but i'm looking for something more akin to mapping a
    >drive on winblows. do i have to use NFS or some other
    >filesystem?
    >i have some mp3's on our linux test server at work. i
    >set up samba so that the other developers could map a
    >drive to the multimedia directory and listen to
    >evryones mp3's. i want to do something similar with
    >my laptop, which is running redhat. i have network
    >access and can telnet and ftp into the server, but i'm
    >not sure how to open a file on the server from the
    >laptop. any suggestions?

    It sounds like you already have samba set up, so you can use smbmount on
    the laptop to mount the shared resource supplied by samba on the server.
    You can call smbmount indirectly using the smbfs file type in your mount
    statement:

    prompt# mount -t smbfs -o password=xxxxxx[,username=yyyyy] //host/resource
    /your/mountpoint

    Of course, as already mentioned you can also set up NFS.

    Mike K.

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