mount window Share

[hardrain]

Hi..
I have a drive opened up from a window machine, my Linux can see it under the network servers with the computer name and files in it. But where do i access those files?
I looked up in the web and seemed to me that i need to mount this drive...
Mount a Windows share on Linux with Samba
1. I was able to use # smbclient -L <windows-box> -U <username>
to see win machine and folders that are sharing.
2. # mount -t smbfs -o username=<username>,password=<password> //<win-box>/<share> /mnt/<name-of-mountpoint>
=> tried smbfs, unknown filesystem type 'smbfs', so i tried cifs
=> did not work either, the errors are "permission denied"
=> also tried using ip address, did not help either

Does anyone has similar situation and know how to fix the problem?
I have a redhat EL5 installed. already yum installed samba - 3.0.28-1.el5_2.1.i386.

Thanks!!
a total newbie

[jmadero]

any reason you want to mount this? You can just go to places, network and find the drive? I mounted one once and it was a pain, I forget even why I did it but haven't since then....if you need it mounted I'll try to look into it a bit more

[hardrain]

To access files...
when i evoke programs, I can't see those shared drives...

[jmadero]

Well to begin with I would alter your smb.conf to be the most basic and add from there. This would mean that your network would have no username and password (which works for most people). It's a good way to troubleshoot:

[global]
workgroup = SIMPLE

[test]
comment = For testing only, please
path = /export/samba/test
read only = no
guest ok = yes

That's as simple as you can get for samba. The file to edit is /etc/samba/smb.conf (I recommend backing up that file before deleting everything in there and trying the simple method).

From here use

mount -t smbfs //location of networkd drive /mount point


Unfortunately I no longer have a network up (but will as of tomorrow) so if that doesn't work I'll try a few things out as soon as I can.

[hardrain]

I had put this into my fstab... according to other readings on the web.. but still not seeing the drive...

//<ip address of the window machine>/E /mnt/winshare cifs username=xxx,password=xxx,_netdev,uid=xxx,gid=user s 0 0

Is this the correct direction?
Not totally understand why to edit smb.conf because the samba is working. From windows I can see my share drives under Linux, no problem..


Help ~~

[coopstah13]

you need to install smbfs package, its separate from samba server and samba client packages

[hardrain]

uhmm.. I am using rhel-i386-server-5
I tried "yum install smbfs"..
it said No package smbfs available....

any other package name i should try?