Re: Accessing Windows netowrk

From: Anthony W. Youngman (thewolery_at_nospam.demon.co.uk)
Date: 08/26/03


Date: Tue, 26 Aug 2003 20:34:29 +0100

In article <slrnbk4he8.18vt.The.Central.Scrutinizer@turing.kaosol.net>,
TCS <The.Central.Scrutinizer@p.o.b.o.x.com> writes
>On Tue, 19 Aug 2003 15:30:28 GMT, Keith D. Miller <kmiller@misssouridelta.com>
>wrote:
>> does anything need to be installed on the windows side and are there setup
>> instructions with samba
>>
>
>If another windows box can see the share than linux/samba will be able to.
>
>Use smbmount (mount -t smb?) to mount the share.
>You need to set smbpasswd if the share requires a password.
>
Whoops no.

If you want to use a linux client to doze server, use smbmount (which is
included with but not part of samba).

To use a doze client and linux server you need samba as smbpasswd.

Cheers,
Wol

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