Linux Reality Episode 25:  Windows Networking Part 1
Extra Notes

Accessing Windows from Linux - i.e. mounting a Samba share

Turn on file sharing on Windows box.  Open ports 137-139.

Install smbfs from your package manager.

If you want users to mount & unmount Samba shares, change these
permissions:

chmod u+s /usr/bin/smbmnt chmod u+s /usr/bin/smbumount

as user, make a mountpoint, e.g. /home/sambashare

command to mount:

smbmount //server/share /home/sambashare

to mount at boot:

edit /etc/fstab

//server/share /home/sambashare smbfs
//credentials=/etc/samba/.smbpasswd,user,rw,auto,fmask=0777,dmask=0777,uid=1000,gid=100
//0 0

(that is all on one line)

or

//server/share /home/sambashare smbfs credentials=/etc/
samba/.smbpasswd,rw,uid=bob   0   0

(that is all on one line)

in /etc/samba/.smbpasswd put username = user password = secret

This is your Windows username & password.  You need a Windows account.

chmod 0600 /etc/samba/.smbpasswd

That changes the permissions so only the root user can read .passwd.j

Note:  You don't have to mount your Samba shares in /etc/fstab.  That
is optional.  You can also usually browse the network using your file
manager (e.g. konqueror or nautilus).  To browse, type "smb:///" in
your file manager url bar

Updated:  Mon Oct 23 22:20:57 EDT 2006