help me make windows visible from linux

[tapsemi]

I am(a newbie) trying to make my WinXP machine's harddrive visible from linux machine running mandrake9.1 I made the particular drive(d:) sharable in windows and then from linux prompt I typed(as root)

mkdir /mnt/d
mount //<computername>/d /mnt/d -t smbfs -o username=<xyz>

and it gives me this error message

12629: tree connect failed: ERRDOS - ERRnosuchshare (You specified an invalid share name) SMB connection failed

where <computername> is the name of windows computer and <xyz> is the common user name.

Does anyone have any idea about what this errors mean and how can I make my windows computer visible from Linux machine.

[skinner422]

you may want to use xfsamba. it's gui that lets you browse and mount computer over a network. i think it's included in mandrake9.1

[juicelooser]

If you go into the Mandrake Control Panel, then Mount Points, then Set Samba Mount Points, you can set it up there.

[tapsemi]

I couldn't see any mount/unmount option in the Control Panel. The only close thing I saw was Control Center -> Local Network Browsing, which I had already filled out correctly. Am I getting something wrong?

[somebitch]

i use the following

mount -t ntfs /dev/hda3 /mnt/windows

you have to change the hda to your windows hda and /mnt/windows to the mount point you want to use.

[DMR]

Originally posted by some*****
i use the following

mount -t ntfs /dev/hda3 /mnt/windows

you have to change the hda to your windows hda and /mnt/windows to the mount point you want to use. That would be for a local Windows mount; this is a remote share that tapsemi is having trouble with.

tapsemi,

On the XP box, open a DOS box and type the following command:

net view \\computername

where computername is the name of the XP box. Check the resulting list of shares carefully to make sure that you're really sharing the D: drive as "d". Also check the permissions in the drive's properties window.