Re: Accessing a windows xp pro shared folder from a linux machine

[Daniel Brinks <dlbrinks@xxxxxxx>]

If your distro doesn't come with a graphical tool to mount samba shares, I've 
found LinNeighborhood (http://www.bnro.de/~schmidjo/) to work quite well. As 
for a good SSH client, PuTTY rocks.

-Dan

On Wednesday 19 January 2005 05:10 pm, Kyle Schneider wrote:
> What role are you using the machine in?
>
> If it's a desktop with something like Gnome or KDE installed, there's
> likely going to a built-in function to mount a samba share. In Gnome,
> open a nautilus window (file-browser) and click File -> Connect to
> Server. I'm not sure how it's done in KDE.
>
> If it's something you're using without a GUI or, you can't get the GUI
> to work/don't want to mess with it, install smbfs (however your
> distribution does this) and use the following command:
> mount -t smbfs -o username=foo,password=bar //IPorHostname/share
> /mount/point
>
> I too recommend PuTTY as a Windows SSH client.
>
> Patrick Sohn-Griffus wrote:
> > For an SSH client, I highly recommend PuTTY, available from
> > http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/putty/
> > Nothing else even comes close.
> >
> > As to accessing windows shares from linux, I don't know the specifics
> > off the top of my head, but it's not that hard. A quick google search
> > will turn up more information than you'll ever need.
> >
> > - Patrick
> >
> > Jacob Fugal wrote:
> >> Hello,
> >>
> >> I have a machine I just barely installed Linux on and just figured
> >> out how to get it on the network. Now I need to access some files on
> >> a windows machine on our lab subnet. I’m not even sure which program
> >> would support this. I take it that Samba will allow windows machines
> >> to access directories on the Linux machine, but not necessarily a
> >> windows directory from a Linux machine. Any tips on where to look on
> >> how to set this up?
> >>
> >> Also, does anyone know of a good ssh2 windows client that is free or
> >> maybe cheap?
> >>
> >> Have a good day!
> >>
> >> Jacob Fugal
> >>
> >> jpfugal@xxxxxxx