Accessing Windows Shares - Cont. 1

smbfs

The smbfs filesystem allows you to mount Windows shares to your local filesystem. Sometimes this is much easier to use. It also allows applications (such as file managers, etc) that don't speak Windows to access those shares.

smbmount //winmachine/share my_mount_point -o username=myusername, password=mypasswd

smbumount my_mount_point

Pitfalls

• use a username and password - I've had much better success in general without trying to access these things anonymously.
• when in doubt use the ip instead of the machine name (netbios sucks)