When the world was young, Joshua Pincus carved some runes like this:
> I've got two questions, and I'll list them in order of importance.
(1) Is
> there a way, or is there any research/development going into unearthing a
> way, to mount a samba filesystem like any other filesystem under UNIX?
>
> And (2), does anyone know of a good X filemanager? What I would really
> like to do is be able to mount a Samba directory or resource and treat it
> like any other directory. That way, I could get away from the FTP-like
> interface and be able to browse it with a graphical filemanager.
Answers:
1) There's no need for research; try the smbmount command.
[arnold@rama]# smbmount "//win_machine_name/shared_dir" /mnt
To get a list of available shares on a particular machine, try the
smbclient command:
[arnold@rama]# smbclient -L win_machine_name
The smbmount/smbumount commands are installed by default with
RedHat, but I don't think they are installed with the regular samba
stuff (better check this one).
2) Both xfm and the tk version of Midnight Commander work pretty
well. There's also the two desktop projects (KDE and Gnome). I
haven't tried either of the latter yet. KDE is partially based on
a non-free library (while Gnome is entirely GPL'd), but it's a
little more mature than Gnome right now.
Later, Steve
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