mounting samba shares

[generaltso88]

im an almost complete linux newb. I just installed gentoox and want to listen to music on my windows machine, but i have no way to browse it except through konqueror. I have searched various forums for days and i still cant do it.

I tried

root: mount -t smbfs //192.168.0.2/ /root/mnt

Any help would be greatly appreciate. thanks.

[lotw]

im an almost complete linux newb. I just installed gentoox and want to listen to music on my windows machine, but i have no way to browse it except through konqueror. I have searched various forums for days and i still cant do it.

I tried

root: mount -t smbfs //192.168.0.2/ /root/mnt

Any help would be greatly appreciate. thanks.

If you have Webmin running, just log onto that and go to the servers section, you will see Samba there and you can easlity setup directories to share from there. I use the Pro version without the Graphics garbage, since it is just a server and that webmin works great for just about everything.

[nobspangle]

I tried

root: mount -t smbfs //192.168.0.2/ /root/mnt

You are almost there

first you need to make the mount point then you are missing the name of your share on your windows PC, also a username and password usually help try

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mkdir /mnt/music
mount -t smbfs -o username=<user> //192.168.0.2/share /mnt/music

replace <user> with you windows username and share with the name of the share that you use for your music.

[generaltso88]

Thanks for all of your help, but i did work it out myself by research. Im an idiot because i changed my workgroup on the xp box to something else than workgroup. So i just changed the smb.conf line and it mounted fine.

[SnAtcH]

you should use webmin idd it's THE perfect help system for newbies