> The username on the XP box actually has
> a space in it as does do the folder names.
while waiting for a real network guru (i am NOT!), you can try this, i
don’t how it could hurt anything…
using your example (which i have NO idea if it should work or
not…BUT, if username is actually “user name” and the directory you
wanna mount is “folder name” then, try this:
mount -t smbfs -o username=‘user name’,password=xppassword
//fileserver/path/to/‘folder name’
and, if that doesn’t work, try this:
mount -t smbfs -o username=“user name”,password=xppassword
//fileserver/path/to/“folder name”
see, i think it is getting confused if you are now sending
mount -t smbfs -o username=user name,password=xppassword
//fileserver/path/to/folder name
Just to say I made a typo in my command above. I left the mount point off. It should be
mount -t smbfs -o username=xpusername,password=xppassword //fileserver/path/to/folder /mount/point/path Still not working though. Just trying to run this from the terminal as root.
Ok, just looked at your tutorial. I can’t enable smbfs. I get an error saying " /etc/init.d/smbfs start returned 6 (program is not configured):"
I have samba-client installed and configured and can happily browse my XP box and all the files and folders on it.
What needs configuring? Do I need to set up the full blown samba server?