Today is the last post of our Windows and Linux interconnection over a network. We start from where we left last time
3 Mount –t smbfs –o username = “<username>”, password = “<password>” //<Hostname>/<Share Name> /mnt/sambashare:
This command mounts the windows share onto the Linux filesystem in the /mnt/sambashare folder. Replace this with the location where you wa nt to mount it. It is very similarto mounting a CD-ROM or floppy.
The other way of LAN browsing is using a GUI-based application that resembles Windows Network Neighborhood. The simplest way to have GUI-based LAN browsing is to use Konqueror in KDE. Just type the location in the address bar with a smb:// prefiX.
Smb://<Hostname>/<Share Name>
An authentication window will pop up to ask your username and password. Provide it and you are in. There are scores of GUI interfaces available at http://us1.samba.org/sambalGUII. Pick the one you like best. The popular ones are Webmin and Komba2. But I love Linneighborhood–it is supposedly a port of the Windows Network Neighborhood and looks exactly like the real McCoy.
Read the SAMBA documentation on the website and if that is not enough, buy a book called Using SAMBA by Robert Eckstein, David Collier-Brown and Peter Kelly from O’Reilly Press. And of course as always, have fun.
