[wellylug] Sharing with windows

[Cliff Pratt]

E.Chalaron 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...
> 
Under Windows, there can be two sorts of permissions, file permissions 
and share permissions. File permissions only apply to NTFS file systems 
and most external disks use FAT or FAT32 file systems so only share 
permissions apply.

Assuming the permissions are correct, I would use the smbclient utility 
to test out the access before trying to mount anything. smbclient will 
show you any shares on that box.

Windows file sharing works by host name - an smb share name is 
\\<hostname>\<sharename>. You haven't sais what the sharename is.

Cheers,

Cliff

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