Mounting a Windows share on FC5 with Samba

[m1sael]

I'm trying the command "mount" to mount a share folder in a Windows box in my FC5 box. The command I use is:

mount -t smbfs //<win-box>/<share> /mnt/<name-of-mountpoint>

but all I get is the error message:

mount: unknown filesystem type 'smbfs'

Please note that Samba is already running and I can transfer files from the Windows box. The windows machine is visible from the FC5 machine but only when double-clicking the Network icon, which is fine if what I want is just to transfer files. The problem is that all my FC5 applications cannot see the share files in the windows box (like if I want to listen to an mp3 saved in the windows share, mplayer cannot find the share).

[Seve]

Hello:
Have you visited this how-to ? http://forums.fedoraforum.org/showth...ighlight=Samba
Seve

[twoeyes]

use a cmd like so:

mount.cifs //IP_ADDRESS/SERVER_NAME/SHARE_NAME /mnt/MOUNT_POINT -o user=username

It will prompt for password, worked for me.

[m1sael]

Thank you very much twoeyes!

It worked perfectly!!