Re: Linux to Win Share; diff. subnets; thru firewall - Help pls

From: KDoc (kl_at_attitia.com)
Date: 08/22/05 

Date: Mon, 22 Aug 2005 11:16:04 +1000

For the benefit of the archives:

After days of p---ing about, changing multitudinous configurations, 3
different firmware up/downgrades on the router/firewall, I finally have
this working.

The solution I have managed to get working is so stupidly simple, it's
embarassing. I had been making the mount call to the final destination's
IP/Hostname. And it simply continued to fail.

mount -t smbfs //machine03/sharename /local/mountpoint -o \
             username=machine03user,uid=linuxuser,gid=linuxgroup

Instead, I simply needed to direct the mount cmd to the router's
IP/Hostname and it then fwdded it on.

A week of wasted effort on a lesson which could have been learnt in 2 min.s

K

Antoine EMERIT wrote:
> KDoc <kl@attitia.com> écrivait
>
>>As I don't specifically want to browse, rather just map directly to a
>>specific machine, do I still need to set up WINS?
>
>
> If the specifif machines has a fixed ip, use its IP in the mount command
> line.
>
> And then you don't need to bother about all this netbios browsing stuff.
>