browsing files on another box over a network

[aakbari]

I'm a newbie to Linux running Gnome on Redhat 7.0. My problem is that I don't know how to access a different computer on the network. The other computers are windows 200 boxes. Any help would be appreciated

[Malakin]

There are a number of different way to do this but here is how I've been doing it for several years now without any problems.

Setup the shared folder on your windows 2000 box. Log into it from another win2k box to make sure it's working.

Create a mount point for share, I usually make a /smb/ folder to put them all in. So maybe /smb/c or whatever you want to call it.

smbmount //1.2.3.4/win2kshare /smb/c -o username=win2kusername,password=win2kpassword

Hope this example is self explanatory. Note that in win2k shares you can put a $ after the name and then it's invisible so people scanning your machine won't see all the shares you have open.

If you don't have "smbmount", it's in the samba-client rpm which likely comes on the RH CD's.

If you're using konqueror you can also connect to the win2k boxes just by typing "smb://win2kip/share" (I think is the format) but it has some limitations.

[aakbari]

thanks for the quick response. It looked like everything seemed to work ok, the only problem is that I don't know how to view my files. At the command prompt I see a ">" and nothing else. When I type ls, cd, or anything else nothing shows up just the ">". Might sound like a stupid question but please remember I'm a newbie

[Malakin]

Whatever the last thing is you typed before you get a > prompt that doesn't seem to do anything probably had a typo in it or something.