Link To Windows Drive?

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bobber205 · Post by **bobber205** » Mon Aug 20, 2007 9:01 pm

Is there anyway to make a link to a \\computer\share resource?

Thanks.

aqu · Post by **aqu** » Mon Aug 20, 2007 9:32 pm

sure there is

scenario 1.
if \\computer is somewhere in LAN, then all you need to do is emerge samba and mount shared resource wherever you want

(eventually add it into /etc/fstab and mount it every boot

scenario 2.
if \\computer is your localhost then (if you have ntfs partition) emerge fuse ntfs3g, mount you windows partition (mount -t ntfs-3g /dev/hdXX /mount/point) and link directory wherever you want ( ln -s /mount/point/shared/directory /link/name)

thats all

any questions ?

/bp

Monkeh · Post by **Monkeh** » Mon Aug 20, 2007 9:43 pm

aqu wrote:scenario 1.
if \\computer is somewhere in LAN, then all you need to do is emerge samba and mount shared resource wherever you want (eventually add it into /etc/fstab and mount it every boot

You do not need samba. Samba (the package) is a server, not a client. The client code is in the kernel.

tarpman · Post by **tarpman** » Tue Aug 21, 2007 4:43 pm

Monkeh wrote:
aqu wrote:scenario 1.
if \\computer is somewhere in LAN, then all you need to do is emerge samba and mount shared resource wherever you want :) (eventually add it into /etc/fstab and mount it every boot
You do not need samba. Samba (the package) is a server, not a client. The client code is in the kernel.

You do, however, need mount.cifs(8), which is part of the net-fs/samba package.

Monkeh · Post by **Monkeh** » Tue Aug 21, 2007 5:52 pm

tarpman wrote:
Monkeh wrote:
aqu wrote:scenario 1.
if \\computer is somewhere in LAN, then all you need to do is emerge samba and mount shared resource wherever you want (eventually add it into /etc/fstab and mount it every boot
You do not need samba. Samba (the package) is a server, not a client. The client code is in the kernel.
You do, however, need mount.cifs(8), which is part of the net-fs/samba package.

Good point, I forgot about that.. there really needs to be a minimal package for such things so you don't end up building the entire server suite.