[ale] Accessing Windows Share

[Mark Hurley]

On Mon, Nov 12, 2001 at 01:02:16AM -0500, Arafat Mohamed wrote:
> So I did
> 
> mount -t smbfs //Computer/Share /myshare
> 
> where Computer is the windows box name and Share is the shared folder
> name. I get the following error...
> 
> mount: mount point /myshare does not exist
> 
> I also tried 
> 
> smbclient -L Computer
> 
> and I got the desired result (It listed all shared files and resources).
> I even checked the list to verify that the folder Share exists and is
> being shared.
> 
> Is there something else I am missing?

Yes..... does /myShare really exist on your Linux box?

Create a dir under /mnt/myShare

then use   /mnt/myShare  instead

Once it works....put that entire line into your 

/etc/fstab


and you can then just do...

mount /mnt/myShare

voila!

:)

Mark Hurley

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