Topic: Mapping an xp drive

[Dr_pepper_X]

Can someone give me step by step proccess on how to map a XP shared drive to the server so I can set the ftp server to use that directory due to my server having limited hard drive space

[Nathan Fowler]

From a command prompt:

NET USE * \\ /user: /persistent:YES

[Dr_pepper_X]

I think I misworded my question.  I want to be able to see a shared folder on my windows machine throught my server.  I want to be able to have users ftp to a folder on my xp though a mapping on the server.

[Nathan Fowler]

Right, that's how you would do it.  It will assign a local drive letter, lets say X: to that share.  Then, when you setup your FTP server on your XP (yuck) box, you would point the ftp root to X:

[Bill Talcott]

He wants to have his XP hard drive show up in SME's FTP server. The equivalent of running "NET USE \XP_PC\SharedFolder X:" on the SME... If this is possible, I could find it handy too...

[Nathan Fowler]

Oh!  The complete reverse of what I was thinking.

You should be able to do that with mount.

mount -t smbfs -o username=,password= //192.168.0.15/myshare

See /usr/bin/smbmount for more information.



Nathan

[Nathan Fowler]

Note the first message was using mount, you can use mount, or call smbmount directly.  A piece of advice, if you are calling smbmount to attach to \192.168.0.15\myshare then you would issue the following command:

smbmount \192.168.0.15\myshare /mnt/XPbox -o username=,password=,rw

Notice that every backslash is doubled.  This is necessary.

Nathan

[Ian]

i tried waht you said and this is what I got


[root]  smbmount \169.254.77.66\ftp /mnt/XPbox -- o

Could not resolve mount point /mnt/XPbox

can you help me

[Terry Brummell]

Did you create "/mnt/XPbox" on your server?  Or you can change that to something like "/home/e-smith/files/ibays/ibay_name/files".

Hope that helped...