How to directly access files on windows network

[Michael R. Head]

On Thu, 2006-03-09 at 10:05 -0400, Derek Broughton wrote:
> > 
> > To directly edit a remote file, you need to use smbmount
> > directly.
> 
> Exactly.  You can mount samba shares in /etc/fstab, or with mount
> (type=smbfs), and that will use smbmount under the hood.  I'm not sure
> whether you can mount them with pmount, but I would expect so.

type=cifs is better in most cases. You can use 'sudo mount.cifs ...'
instead of 'sudo smbmount ...' to do it at the command line.

BTW: the support files for this are in the 'smbfs' package.

mike

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