[wellylug] Sharing with windows

[Interfecus]

Umm, shouldn't there be two names in there? You need both the host computer
name and the share name to mount a SMB share remotely. It looks like you
have the computer name but not which share to mount.

On 7/15/06, E.Chalaron <e.chalaron at xtra.co.nz> wrote:
>
> Hi all
> I must, as usual, miss a point somewhere :
> I have a windows 2000 machine here and I need to share an external HD
> plugged
> in it with my Linux Pcs.
> I have enabled the sharing option under windows, (though I have not
> restarted
> it yet for a good reason),
>
> From any linux machine smbtree is finding the windows PC (Taranaki)
>
> gascogne#smbtree
>
> WINDOWS
>         \\TARANAKI
> MDKGROUP
>         \\RIMUTAKA                      Samba Server 3.0.2a
>
>
> Now I try to
> smbmount //taranaki/ /mnt/external_hd_on_taranaki
> password : blablabla
>
> Connection refused ... :-(
>
> I made sure that the share under windows is as unsecure as possible by
> giving
> al sort of rights to everyone, suggesting that I am doing something wrong
> somewhere...
>
> Any suggestion welcome to sort this out, I have 500 Gb of data to
> transfert
> and it is painfully slow via scp...
>
> Thanks
> Edouard
>
>
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