mounting other PCs devices?

[rsy369]

stupid newbie ? I am running RedHat 7.0, and would like to have one of my lessor PCs be able to mount all of my other PCs devices and drivespace.[also running RH7.0] I read the NHFs, but dont seem to be getting it yet. Any help or direction would be great. Many thanks.

Ron

[Craig McPherson]

Well, you didn't describe exactly what you're trying to accomplish, so it's hard to answer. I assume you have a Linux machine and some Windows machines, and you want to access Windows files from the Linux machine. I'll also assume you know about the basics of Windows filesharing, how to share files on Windows, etc.

To mount a Windows fileshare on Linux, you need to use the SAMBA client tools. SAMBA is a UNIX implementation of the SMB protocol. The easiest way to mount a Windows fileshare on a Linux box is using the mount command:

mount -t smbfs //servername/sharename /mntpoint

See the mount manpage if you're not familiar with it.

I don't think you even have to have Samba running (maybe you'll need NMBD running) in order to do this. Samba is a server, but it provides client tools, and you shouldn't need the server running in order to use them -- you may need NMBD active to look up the NetBIOS names.

You can find a free book on Samba here:
http://samba.he.net/

[Helical Cynic]

If you're talking about Linux <--> Linux and not Linux <--> Windows, then I think NFS may be what you're looking for, not samba. Unfortunately, I am not an expert in NFS and such. Perhaps someone who frequents the Networking forum and is more knowledgable than I can help you...

[rsy369]

Hi,
thanks, I am not trying to use any windows PCs at all for this task. I have 2 RedHat 7.0 boxes. One is a P100 w/ almost zero drive space left [the RH os took it all] and a Cel500Mhz box that has a DVD, CDR, and a 30gig drive. I'm coming from an Win/NT background, and not sure how to "map" the CDR, DVD, and the Celeron500's harddrive space all for use by the little P100 via a network connection... Like in windoze, you just "map network drive" to someone else cdrom on the network, and then you can use their cdrom as if it was attached to your PC. Both PCs are running and have internet access thru a AnalogX proxy on another [3rd PC] windows machine. Am I just stupid, I know this is easy, but I can seem to figure it out. Any guidance would be greatly appreciated.
thanks.
Ron :confused:

[bdg1983]

NFS is what you are looking for.
http://www.linuxdoc.org/HOWTO/NFS-HOWTO/index.html