Guest Jose Posted April 22, 2003 Report Share Posted April 22, 2003 I have a Red Hat 8 box and a Win XP Home box. I have all my music on the XP box, but would like to mount the 2nd Win VFAT32 drive where the music is on my linux machine. I have read the info on the mount command, but don't know how to reference the external, non local lan drive (not local to the linux box itself). What is the proper reference to a drive other than on the linux machine? I have done this easily on my mandrake machine, but RedHat does not provide a user interface, gui, with which to do this process. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MottS Posted April 22, 2003 Report Share Posted April 22, 2003 You have to put an entry in your /etc/fstab. This is really well explained here: http://www.mandrakeuser.org/docs/connect/c...mba.html#client Basically, be sure you can at least ping that machine (ie the network is working). Then open /etc/fstab as root and add a line similar to that: //win/EXPORT /mnt/vmsmb smbfs user,noauto 0 0 and now type mount /mnt/vmsmb This will mount the 'EXPORT' share on the 'win' machine in your local /mnt/vmsmb directory. Hope this help MOTtS Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Jose Posted May 10, 2003 Report Share Posted May 10, 2003 Sure does help. Thanks. I am on my way..... to Linux knowledge. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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