Samba mount in linux

[Caden Fernandes]

I am using Linux and windows and structured the samba server for communicating with both of the operating system using the tutorials suggested on this forums but I don't know how to check and how to start the samba server.

I have no any idea about this please do something for me and provide me the suggestion to start the server.

[Devasis]

If you have created the samba server between the windows and Linux and you need to connect with the created server named as samba.

You obviously can so it and can access the contents placed on the windows file manager section.The following command would help you to test the creation and communication between both server. It would be happened with the following command -

smbclient -L <windows-box> -U <username>

[Solomon]

Creating mount point

You have to create a mount point to mount the samba server.The command for mounting would be located on the this point to be mounted so you have to take some more steps to create and locate the mount point :

Create a directory for the mount point:

mkdir /mnt/<name-of-mount-point>

Mount the share using -

mount -t smbfs -o username=<username>,password=<password> //<win-box>/<share> /mnt/<name-of-mountpoint>

[MrChris-]

Linux (UNIX) machines is able to open and mount SMB shares.One thing should be remember that doesn't matter that which one is as a server Windows machine or a Samba server!

An SMB client program for UNIX machines is contained within the Samba distribution. It gives an ftp-like interface within the command line. Using this utility,you can transfer the files between a Windows 'server' and a Linux client.

    smbclient -L <user_name>

[Calvin K]

For mounting an smbfs share from a Linux workstation using the command line arguments, There are two options can be used :

1- smbmount
2- mount -t smbfs.

Both command achieve the same task. When you use mount -t smbfs, the mount program actually passes the command over to smbmount for execution.

smbmount //servername/sharename /mountdirectory -o 
                                      username=mywindowsusername,password=mywindowspassword