Mount to a Windows Vista share

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I have a FAT32 partition I am sharing on Vista. I’d like to be about to mount to it in SUSE 11.1.

I’m able to do this in Nautilus with the Launcher but it doesn’t appear to be a normal mount. In a nutshell I am trying to create a centralized location to send backups for both my Linux and Vista machines.

I did some searching online and I tried this command but it’s looking for a mount point. How do I create a mount point to something that’s on another machine on the network?

mount -t smbfs -o username=me,password=secret //<machineName> /<mountPoint>

Basically here I’m inserting the IP address at machineName and share name at mountPoint.

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I forgot to create a directory in the mnt directory to mount to.

mount -t cifs //xxx.xxx.xxx.xx/share$ /mnt/bak -o username=user,password=pwd

And this works. If I try to use smbfs then I get an error regarding smbfs not being a recognized file system. I assume I have to install something?

Also, what’s the difference between cifs and smbfs?

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It seems I have read that other distributions have deprecated the use of smbfs?

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imterpsfan2 wrote:
> It seems I have read that other distributions have deprecated the use of
> smbfs?

So has openSUSE.

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If you need to fiddle with permissions or make a permanent mount, look here:
Samba: HowTo Mount a CIFS Network Share [AKA Map Network Drive] in openSUSE 10 & 11 plus FAQs

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Great job Swerdna, I’m bookmarking that page.