UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers

I am in my second semester of my IT major and have recently set up a dual boot computer running XP pro and openSuSE 10.2. I am 100% New to unix/linux. Here is what I am looking to do:

1.) CompSci, and IT students are allowed to map to a network drive from their computers. I have done so on Windows. How can I map to that drive on linux as well? I see a lot about samba, but no specific directions anywhere on how to make it happen.

2.)Make my linux partition readable by my XP account (maybe samba, if so how exactly?).

Thanks in advance for your help!

Wes Neill

(1)Your system will have to be able to talk SMB "Server Message Block". For more information about how to map the network drive take a look at :http://www.stevens.edu/itwiki/cgi-bi...rk_Drive#Linux




(2) You will need samba for this for sure... Take a look at http://tldp.org/HOWTO/SMB-HOWTO-7.html


regards,
Johan Louwers.

Thanks for the advice!

However, for some reason I cannot access the link, to the sevens.edu wiki.

Also I am 100% new to unix/linux and I need step by step (click here, type this, spin around 3 times) directions, and the howto page doesn't quite provide that.

Please find below a copy of the relevant part of the page you could not access....

Linux

You can map a network drive to Storage01 using the smbmount utility. You can run the following command as a regular user:

$ smbmount //storage01/share /path/to/mount -o username=myusername,workgroup=campus,uid=mylocalusername,ip=storage01.stevens.edu

* //storage01/share is the mount location. Replacing 'share' with your domain username will map the network drive to your personal storage space. Please read the article on Storage01 for other possible locations.
* /path/to/mount is the location you want to map/mount the network drive at. You can map it to a mountpoint in your current directory such as 'mnt' by not using any slashes (full pathname is also fine)
* username=myusername - myusername should be replaced with your domain username.
* workgroup=campus - this specifies the domain to check your username and password against, leave it like this
* uid=mylocalusername - mylocalusername should be the name of your linux user (whoami will tell you this if you are unsure). This is the user who owns the directory/mountpoint you are mounting/mapping to.
* ip=storage01.stevens.edu - this specifies an "ip address" (a FQDN in this case) to locate Storage01 by. Leave as-is.

When you run this command, you should see a prompt similar to:

Password:

Type in your domain password and press enter. You will now be able to access the file stored on storage01 at the mountpoint you specified.

Regards,
Johan Louwers.

Thanks very much. These are the kind of specific directions that I am looking for. But I am a little lost as to what to use in certain places...

here is what I tried all on one line:

//storage01/(name of share I set up in smb.conf)/(my user home directory) -o username=(my user name),workgroup=campus(<--- not sure what to put here),uid=(again my user name, why twice?),ip=my IP address gotten online from website...

I think perhaps I am a bit confused about certain varialbles here.