Re: Share directories on a Linux machine to a Linux machine

[Jacob Fugal <jpfugal@xxxxxxx>]

Is that all you have to do? I imagine you have to set some kind of perms 
in samba on the machine that has the shared directory, eh?

Jacob Fugal
jpfugal@xxxxxxx

Kyle Schneider wrote:

> I use samba to mount a drive over the network, and I simply use a mount
> command to do it.  You'll need to install smbfs out of apt first though.
>
>  
>
> > mount -t ext3 -o username=user,password=pass //machine/dir /mnt/dir
> >    
>
> mount -t smbfs -o usernmae=user,password=pass //machine/share /mnt/point
>
> or, you can place an entry like the following in /etc/fstab to mount the
> share at boot (you'll still need smbfs though)
>
> //mount/share /mnt/point smbfs defaults,gid=100,dmask=775,fmask=665,rw 0 0
>
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