systems or Samba servers) in your Linux filesystem. A typical smbmount command might look something like this: smbmount //maya/d d -o credentials=/home/jay/.smbpw,uid=jay,gid=jay,fmask=664,dmask=775 This mounts the \\maya\d share on the directory named d in the current working directory on the Linux system. Authentication credentials (username, password) are kept in /home/jay/.smbpw. This method is a little more secure than putting the password in plaintext on the command line(!). The rest of the options are for specifying what UID, GID and permissions to give to the files in the mounted share. See the smbmount manual page for more details. Jay Ts author, Using Samba, 2nd edition