Connecting to remote windows machine using samba server

[mefrmdelhi]

Hi guys,

How do I access windows file system on debian sarge. I installed samba file server on my debian box. Well I just accessed it on konqueror by typing smb://machinename. I want to know is there any other way of accessing it because konqueror runs quite slow on my machine? Secondly how do I copy files from windows machine to linux. I am unable to copy any file from windows to linux or from linux to windows.

Thanks in advance

Naseem

[iwanabeguru]

use mc , you can make smb-link with mc

[mefrmdelhi]

What is mc? When I run mc from terminal, it says command not found.

Naseem

[jonantice]

Start here:
http://wiki.samba.org/index.php/Moun..._a_unix_client
The smb server means that your windows machine can access your linux machine. You need to install smbclient and read the link I provided. I hope that helps.

[iwanabeguru]

mc is the midnight commander

run the command with the root account
apt-get install mc

[mefrmdelhi]

Thanks to both...

wiki link is very informative. With slight changes in the smb.conf file, copy/paste is working now.


Naseem

[mefrmdelhi]

Here is what I did for starting and stopping samba sever....

Starting server:  /usr/sbin/smbd -D and /usr/sbin/nmbd -D

Stopping server: killall -TERM smbd and killall -TERM nmbd

For mounting/unmounting remote windows filesystem on linux machine...

mount -t smbfs //192.168.1.30/wp /home/usrname/dump 

umount /home/usrname/dump

Hope it helps to all other who are looking for the same....

Regards

Naseem