[ale] Mount a remote NTFS partition

[Jeff Hubbs]

"smbfs" may *work* but it's deprecated in favor of cifs.  Either need 
kernel module support.

- Jeff

On 1/26/11 3:01 PM, John Pilman wrote:
> I have not tried this with an administrative share, however this is
> the syntax I use:
>
> mount -t smbfs -o username=thatsme,password=secret,uid=john,gid=john
> //server/share /mountpoint
>
> smbfs is installed separately from samba - this took me a while to
> find, so it may be causing you trouble too.
>
> ...John
>
>
> On Wed, Jan 26, 2011 at 1:32 PM, Richard Faulkner<rfaulkner at 34thprs.org>  wrote:
>> This is what I expect will be an elementary exercise for most of you but
>> keep in mind I'm starting to dig into the CLI this is new to me...
>>
>> I have a pair of machines (networked) in my LAN, one running Ubuntu 9.10
>> (w/Samba) and sharing with a M$ XP box with the following shares:
>>
>> D$
>> Production
>>
>> The name of the M$ box is \\Studio and the name of the partition
>> administratively shared as "d$" is "Storage".
>>
>> I have created a folder in Linux at "\media\D" to act as a mount point for
>> the Storage drive "d$" share in XP AND I can browse to and from each machine
>> successfully.  My only problem is that I don't have the proper syntax to
>> mount d$ to /media/D in Ubuntu.  Samba is installed and running fine...I can
>> query and "see" \\Studio\d$ and/or \\Studio\Production without issue..
>>
>> Any learned *NIX insight to aid this noob convert from M$?
>>
>> Rich in Lilburn
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