[linux-audio-user] RE: mounting network drives for dummies?

[Christian Henz]

On Thu, Oct 30, 2003 at 07:16:48PM +0100, Maarten de Boer wrote:
> > a shot in the dark here, but i have a similar problem regarding huge 
> > sample libraries on my Mac. despite having hfsplus 1.0.4 installed on 
> > the redhat machine and OS X's samba active, i can access the volume 
> > from redhat, but can't access any files...
> > 
> > anybody overcome these obstacles?
> 
> i am accessing files shared with samba by macosx from linux without any
> problem. you won't need the hfsplus. i don't remember what i did to set
> it up at the mac site (and i don't have a monitor attached right now),
> but i am quite sure it was the basic stuff as explained in the help.
> 
> how are you mounting the samba share on the linux side? my guess is that
> you don't specify the user id that the mounted share should have on the
> linux side.
> 
> if my linux users' uid is 1021, and i want to mount the homedir of user
> mdeboer on the mac, with hostname the_mac:
> 
> mount -t smbfs -o username=mdeboer,uid=1021 //the_mac/mdeboer /mnt/mac
> 
> maarten
> 

If you're using KDE, then you can just enter 'smb://the_mac' in Konqueror.
I'm not using user-based permissions with samba though...

cheers,
Christian