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"mount" command question / windows interop question
I'm running an NFS service on a Windows box in order to connect to it. (If there is a better and easy way to do this, please let me know.)
Anyway, I've got NIS running and Windows 2003 R2 is mapping the Linux to Windows users for authentication.
I'm attempting to mount the Windows NFS share, called "fs2share."
The command I'm using is:
[sudo] mount -t fs2:/fs2share
No error is generated and the command seems to work... How do I know mount a directory or some such?
(If I issue the command mount fs2:/fs2share /home/ I get an input/output error. I assume that's because there is an existing home directory?)
Any help or infor would be greatly appricated!
Anyway, I've got NIS running and Windows 2003 R2 is mapping the Linux to Windows users for authentication.
I'm attempting to mount the Windows NFS share, called "fs2share."
The command I'm using is:
[sudo] mount -t fs2:/fs2share
No error is generated and the command seems to work... How do I know mount a directory or some such?
(If I issue the command mount fs2:/fs2share /home/ I get an input/output error. I assume that's because there is an existing home directory?)
Any help or infor would be greatly appricated!
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You do not need to run NFS on Windows. Assuming your Windows file server is named fs2 and you have a share named fs2share. Try this where xxx is the name of a Windows user with share access permisions...
sudo mkdir /winshare
sudo mount -t cifs //fs2/fs2share /winshare -o user=xxx,password=xxx
Some linux kernels may not support cifs in which case try...
sudo mount -t smbfs //fs2/fs2share /winshare -o user=xxx,password=xxx
See also...
http://us1.samba.org/samba/docs/man/manpages-3/mount.cifs.8.html
sudo mkdir /winshare
sudo mount -t cifs //fs2/fs2share /winshare -o user=xxx,password=xxx
Some linux kernels may not support cifs in which case try...
sudo mount -t smbfs //fs2/fs2share /winshare -o user=xxx,password=xxx
See also...
http://us1.samba.org/samba/docs/man/manpages-3/mount.cifs.8.html
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Well,
That's a great solution if you have one user connecting to a Windows box... but what do you do if you want 20 or 30 Linux users connecting to a shared windows file server?
That's a great solution if you have one user connecting to a Windows box... but what do you do if you want 20 or 30 Linux users connecting to a shared windows file server?
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- Yes the reason you are getting an error is the /home directory will already have files in it, if you want to mount it some where I would recomend /mount or /mnt.
- Have a look at /etc/fstab, there should be a entry in there relating to fs2:/fs2share
- Take a look at samba for a way to connect to normal windows shares ( http://us4.samba.org/samba/ )