[SATLUG] Possible to mount Windows XP home directories on a Samba server?

[Brinkley Harrell]

At 04:39 PM 6/29/2006, you wrote:
>The subject of this message just about says it all - has anyone ever
>tried remotely mounting Windows XP home directories on a Samba server?
>If so, how'd you set it up?  Any drawbacks or gotchas to this
>approach, if it's even possible?



Windows machine SERVER has share name MYSHARE on it. The following 
will mount it assuming that "windowsuser" is a valid user on the 
Windows machine with password "password", then the following commands 
will mount it:

         mkdir -p /media/myshare
         mount //server/myshare /media/myshare -o 
username=windowsuser,password=password

will mount the share. This assumes that the machine "SERVER" has some 
method of identifying the IP address (/etc/hosts, DNS, etc.). If not, 
then you also add ",ip=111.222.111.222" to the parameter list in the 
command above.

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Brinkley