Mount a Windows Share to a Linux Drive Letter

I know that.  Next ?

if your linux temp file actually shared out your can broswer it and map network driver by using you winXP

what I mean is if your temp file in your linux box shared out by using the samba service, you can broswe it in your WinXP and map a network drive for it.

are you sure you shared it out? if yes, can you broswe your linux box in your winXP?

normally you share the directory from linux using samba, and the configure file is /etc/samba/smb.conf.

here is the info abt the samba http://hr.uoregon.edu/davidrl/samba-unofficial.html

or you can use the 'net use' command to map a network drive. but it's not the linux command, it's DOS command

NET USE [devicename | *] [\\computername\sharename[\volume] [password | *]]
        [/USER:[domainname\]username]
        [/USER:[dotted domain name\]username]
        [/USER:[username@dotted domain name]
        [[/DELETE] | [/PERSISTENT:{YES | NO}]]

NET USE {devicename | *} [password | *] /HOME

NET USE [/PERSISTENT:{YES | NO}]

hope this can help :)

Can I just clarify the Temp directory is on the Windows PC NOT the Linux machine.

I need the Linux command for NET USE

should be something like below

mount -t smbfs username //windowsservername/share /mnt/share

or using smbmount like this

smbmount //windowsservername/temp$ /mnt/share

to more specify on the mount and you are using winXP try below will be better

mount -t smbfs -o username=administrator,password=password,debug=4 //windowsservername/temp$ /mnt/share

u can mount windows share in 2 ways.
GUI based.
xsmbbrowser

or from command line.
mkdir /mnt/windowsshare

mount -t smbfs -o username=name,password=pwd //server/share /Downloads

If DNS isn't set up for this pair then you will need to replace the server with the appropriate ip address.
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Hello,
when i use mount -t smbfs -o username=name,password=pwd //server/share /Downloads, the linux machine cann't mount winxp share and notice "session setup failed: ERRDOS - ERRnoaccess(Access denied.)
What happened?

Hi,

You can try this

#mkdir /mnt/tmp
#mount -t smbfs //192.168.0.1/Temp /mnt/tmp -o username=Administrator,password=yourpass

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Hello,
when i use mount -t smbfs -o username=name,password=pwd //server/share /Downloads, the linux machine cann't mount winxp share and notice "session setup failed: ERRDOS - ERRnoaccess(Access denied.)
What happened?
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I had the same problem, and it was because the "name" that I used to log in had spaces.  I gave up on that, and used administrator, because it has no spaces.

You can easily use a username  that has spaces in it by simply encasing the name in "" (doublequotes). This method applies to ALL aspects of DOS. Anytime you are doing any command line work with filename or directory names or any names for that matter that have spaces in them you ened to encase the name in question in double quotes.

Ex:
mount -t smbfs -o username="Tom Jones",password=pwd //server/share /Downloads