How to browse Win2k box from Redhat 7.2

[derekfairley]

I've just finished setting up Samba. I can browse the appropriate /home/<account> from my Win2k PC but now I am wondering what I need to do so that I can see all of my partitions from my Linux box.

If you can help, please give detail as Linux is new to me. If you can explain what I need to set up and then how I would normally want to connect, that would be great!

B.T.W - a little background. Red Hat 7.2 is a functional router and firewall for my Win2k PC (through the use of IP Forwarding and 'iptables' as a packet-filtering firewall). I am connected to an ADSL connection and can browse the WWW from both PC's.

Thanks,

Derek

[mychl]

Well, the first thing you need to do is to share out whatever you want to be able to see on your win2k box.... directories, printers, whatever....

Once that is done, then you have to mount... just like any other filesystem.... the w2k share.

To do this you could A) Set up /etc/fstab or B) Use the smbmount command.

I can't remember the syntaxt needed for either one of these, but a quick search on google for smbmount or smbfs should help. *smbfs is the filesystem type you would use to mount the w2k shares.

Good luck my friend, I hope I was able to point you in the right direction.... let us know what you did to get it working....