Subject: Re: Sharing files between a Linux and Windows PC.
From: Greg Madden (pabi@gci.net)
Date: Wed Nov 06 2002 - 16:34:05 AKST
On Wed, 2002-11-06 at 14:18, Tyshall ? wrote:
>
> I have a large collection of mp3s and I would like to be able to send select
> files back and forth between my Windows desktop (which has a cd burner) and
> my Slackware driven laptop. I'm assuming I'll have to mount the filesystem
> from a terminal but have no idea how to go about this. I have a 3com
> Megahertz 56k+lan pcmcia card that I use to connect to the internet by way
> of dial up on my laptop. I have connected the lan dongle to the laptop's
> card and plugged the included cable into both the windows pc and laptop. I
> am assuming I'll have to edit /etc/fstab and I'll probably want to make a
> special mount directory for the windows hd under /mnt/desktop or somthing to
> that effect... Not really sure where to go from there. I don't know
> exactly WHAT I'll be adding to my fstab or even if that is neccesary...
>
> Any help on this would be greatly appreciated.
>
> Thanks.
The user needs to be added to each box, sharing turned on on the Windows
partition. The command 'smbclient -L <windows box name>' will show a
list of all the shares available on the Windows box, it also will let
you know if Samba is setup correctly on the Linux side.
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