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Legacy Forums => General Discussion (Legacy) => Topic started by: Dr_pepper_X on June 24, 2002, 09:50:12 PM
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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
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From a command prompt:
NET USE * \\ /user: /persistent:YES
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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.
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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:
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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...
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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
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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
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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
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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...