[Sderby] Networking in Linux

[Mike Hemstock]

On Friday 10 September 2004 16:44, Dave Coulson wrote:
> Hi chaps
> Some advice needed please!
> I have my computer on a local network to my wife's machine, running
> through a Netgear DG814 Router and two ethernet cards. I also have a
> second hard disk on my machine from which I run Linux, booted from a
> floppy. I wish to be able to see my wife's machine from Linux but am not
> sure how to set things up.
> Is Samba the answer and will it cause problems with the existing Windows
> link?
> Any help greatfully received.
> Cheers
> David Coulson

Hi Dave,

Samba is indeed the answer.  All you need is the Samba client installed and 
you can mount Windows shares onto your Linux file system.

mount -t smbfs //<server>/<share> <mountpoint>

I think that is the correct syntax, but man smbmount will confirm it.

Mike.