Imedia Linux Accessing Windows drive

Hi,

I installed IMedia Linux on a machine and I'm having a hard time connecting to a shared drive on my Windows XP pc.

It comes with a GUI file browser that sees things on my network but will not browse all the way to my pc.

I tried this:

mount -t smbfs -o username=winuser,password=mypassword //windowsserver/sharename /mnt/win

but it seems like Samba is not installed (I will look into that, I've never installed it) but I'm still curious about something I see in the stratup scripts:

echo "Starting SMB browser"
/usr/bin/smbnetfs /mnt/samba -o allow_other,gid=6,default_permissions

I have not found much info on smbnetfs other then it is used to access windows shares and I'd like to know if I could use it to achieve my goal of accessing my windows shared drives.

Any help is appreciated!

Thanks in advance; olacelle

Many distros come without samba installed. That is the first thing to try. Once installed your windows share should be found.

HTH

It seems like my first problem was due to the fact that my linux machine was plugged in to a different network than my Windows machine. Once I realised and fixed that I was able to browse to my machine through the Xfce desktop / Places / Windows Network shortcut. but once I clicked on my machine name I got a permission denied message and I don't see any possibility of entering a username / password. I'm getting fed up with linux... and I'm not sure I would recommend IMedia linux but I guess as a Linux newbie I'm not qualified enough to give that kind of advice... but still that's been my experience so far...

Problem with windows. I thought I gave all permissions to my share, but I didn't. I had done it under the security tab but not under share / permissions.