Can't access hidden shares on w2k server

[dperez]

Hi, I have 2 questions:

I'm setting up my workstation at home with Mandrake 9.0. My other server has win2k running active directory. I'm trying to access the C$ share on the w2k server via Nautilus, but I get an error that it can't find the share. If I use Konqueror, it works fine. Is there anything I need to change on the smb.conf file for this to work?

Second is when I access a share on the w2k 'puter, it takes very long for the files to list using the smb:// command from within Konqueror and sometimes it doesn't even show them. Also have problems if I try to copy files from the w2k server to my computer. Could someone please advice? I have no problems opening the files if I boot into Windows XP (via dual boot)

Thanks
Dennys

[kam]

The most error-proof way to do it is to use smbmount, which mounts a samba share just like any other device. You can also use mount with "-o smbfs" to accomplish the same thing. The only problem is it can sometimes be a pain to mount a share each time you want to access it (you could have it mount automatically of course).
Anyway, I believe its something like this:mount -o smbfs \\computername\sharename /mount/point You can mount it wherever you want of course. If you always mount the same folder, you can add it to /etc/fstab.