samba quick question

[wojohowski]

if i have two hard drives can i access the other from linux

hda linux os
hdb mp3, pictures etc.

Wojo

[nathaniel]

are you asking if u can use a seperate linux box to get to them? u can if that is your question. I use linneighborhood for X-terminals that I run but for console I just use smbclient windows box just need to have a client for MS networking in the network neighbor hood and then login when windows boots up w/ the account u gave in the linux/samba box.
NB

[ 16 February 2001: Message edited by: nathaniel ]

[Craig McPherson]

You sound like you're talking about other hard drives in your Linux machine. No, you don't need to use Samba to mount those in Linux. Samba is a networking server program.

[wojohowski]

How do I get them? I am still not clear.

Wojo

[vhg119]

what you have to do is make a new directorie.( i.e. $mkdir /mnt/mp3) then you can issue a command: mount -t vfat /dev/hdb1 /mnt/mp3 (i think) or you can add a new line in your /etc/fstab and set it up to use the mount point /mnt/mp3.. then anything you want to access your second hard drive, you just cd to /mnt/mp3 and there it is.

[wojohowski]

Thanks very much this was very helpful

Wojo