industriousone

This is the key to the solution I was looking for. Thanks for posting!

works perfect!

for those new to the terminal however, i think a hint to VIM should be given when referring to 'editing' a file. I know there's an implied understanding, however, if you were trying to figure things out and searching...'edit' would be sort of cryptic.

Thank You for this helpful info!

Thanks - worked first time, very useful having not done this before.

i followed the instructions, took about 30 seconds, and mounted.. and it worked beautifully. i was dumbfounded. usually trying to make something work takes a little "doing" if you will, as all machines are different. I dubiously copied some music files over and unmounted. They're playing right now. unreal! lol

thank you very much, very clear and helpful guide

I have reviewed several walkthoughs about mounting Windows SMB shares, and yours was the only one that had worked on the first time.

Thanks!

Nice one! I,ve been trying to sort this for the last 2 hours! Works a treat.. :-)

I know you did this back in 06 but its still great. Just tried it.

I followed te instructions to the letter, but when i run the 'sudo mount -a' command i get 'mount error 6 = No such device or address'. Does anyone have any ideas?

Great tip!! I've been searching and searching, to no avail, for how to set this up. Though lots of folks try to be helpful, this is the first methodology which has completely worked for me. One question, though. What happens when there is a power failure, or for some other reason the router gets reset, and hands out a whole different set of IP addresses to the computers on the network? The names of the computers don't change, but they get associated with different IPs. Is there a way in Step #1 to make this dynamic by computer name instead of associated to a specific IP?

This code and tutorial is such a life saver, ive been searching Ubuntu forums for weeks! This code works and all you have to do is learn a little coding. Took me two tries to get it to work, and Im a comment newbie running Xubuntu 7.10. I thought it would only work for Ubuntu but there is proof now that it works for XFCE :-)

thanks so much
Jason

If you have any trouble mounting with:
mount -t cifs

You might also try:
mount -t smbfs

Usually, both will work, but sometimes only one or the other. If I knew why, I'd say, but I don't...

my ubuntu install had a bar at the top with applications, places and systems and if you click on places and then "connect to server" you can specify the parameters to connect to a windows share. very fast and easy :)

love the command line, but fuck the command line, if you know what i mean!

It worked fine after I corrected the hosts IP.. ;)

Thanks!

Following the instructions I get: -

root@tf-intranet:~# mount -a
mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on //tf/COMPANYDATA,
missing codepage or other error
In some cases useful info is found in syslog - try
dmesg | tail or so

however if I use

mount //172.16.1.2/COMPANYDATA

all works fine, any idea’s why?