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Attaching to UNIX

Can anyone tell me how to map a drive to UNIX in XP?
I keep on trying to do so and it is tell me that "the network path could not be found" I am mapping like this:

\\111.11.11.111\U:username password

If this is wrong, can someone please tell me how?

Thanks!

vinnyd79

Are you using software to share the directories such as Samba or visionfs?

thermans

You would need to have the Windows networking protocol (SMB) running on your Unix box to be able to use this kind of mapping.

Otherwise you coulodhave to use FTP or get an NFS client for you XP box.

Look at Samba (http://www.samba.org). It's available for most flavors of Unix and is quite easy to install.

Hope this helps.

Tim

prasadklk

net use some_drive_letter: \\ipaddress\sharename /user:username and it will prompt for the password.

Eric182

ASKER

How does one acquire the NFS client? What I am trying to do is open a connection and keep it open; in essence, a mapped drive. I have tried the Net use command does not work.
I appreciate all the input I get here.
Thanks again!

karkrajaikumar

I interpret ur question as follows:
U want to use XP filesystem in UNIX env.

IF SO READ FURTHER:

View the file /etc/fstab.

This will give u details about all File Systems on ur machine U will find a name for your XP PARTITION like /dev/hdc3.

U can mount /dev/hadc3 on the current unix system and then use it.
mount /dev/hda4 /mnt/XPonUNIX

After using umount it

umount /mnt/XPonUnix

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Eric182

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Thanks, I will give it shot!