Connect to XP computer from your Linuc Pc

jim · #1 11th February 2005, 11:20 PM

Required
*At least 2 computers connected via cross-over cable or through a router/hub
*know the IP address of the tartget PC in this case the XP computer
*Samba installed and running

you need to have samba installed to do this so make sure you have it installed before continuing

step 1
we need to make a mount point
in the terminal su - enter password

Code:

mkdir /mnt/otherPC

step 2
change the ownership of the folder

Code:

chown yourname /mnt/otherPC

step 3
create link to other pc with samba

Code:

mount -t cifs //IPaddressofotherPC/fat32partition /mnt/otherPC -o

enter the password of the user on the XP PC

hope this gets you started but do read up on samba

awdac · #2 11th February 2005, 11:28 PM

Hey Jim,
Love your HOWTOs, but did you really mean to make the owner of the dir 777, or did you just want to chmod it?

jim · #3 11th February 2005, 11:30 PM

did i make a mistake?

if i did opps !

what and where so i can fix it
thanks

changed 777 to yourname

Opps

awdac · #4 11th February 2005, 11:35 PM

Well, above you give ownership of the file to the dir to a user called 777. I think you'll either want to chmod 777 /mnt/otherPC to give world read/write permissions or chgrp and chown to your username or all of the above. Right? Or am I missing something?

jim · #5 11th February 2005, 11:38 PM

yup i goofed i changed it in the how-to section i h=need to change it in my reply to the other person

imdeemvp · #6 12th February 2005, 12:13 AM

Thanks for the how to....I doing this sometime this weekend.

SlowJet · #7 13th February 2005, 06:58 AM

hehehe,

Are you guys part of the 17 and under group?

Windows Xp's native file system is NTFS 1.3 and perfferably using dynamic volumes which is much like LVM2.
(Most Linux NTFS stuff is build on NTFS 1.2 and only the most current versions will even read NTFS 1.3)

Only dual booters, and those that updated from an old Windows like 98 or ME (and didn't bother to convert the FAT32 to NTFS would NOT be running NTFS 1.3.
Any reinstall would use NTFS 1.3 unless it was told not to.
Running Win XP on Fat32 is like running FC3 on ext2 with a bad disk.
Half of the security setting are non exsistant and there is no logging to recover from bad writes.
And I see you are have attribute troulbes. Yikes, no wonder Linux kids like to reinstall every 6 months, they have to.

As you can see the total lack of concern (by the old school younger crown

) about security is a bit ironic and funny, as the older guys are now witnessing the younger guys being fixed in their ways and unwilling to lean new tricks.
SELINUX and Win SP2 are different than they were last year. Playing with computers is one thing but you could do that on chhat or your cell phones in private (with your parents permission of course.) but here it's just wrong.

As I have been saying for 3 years now, but especial for the last year,
No DOS, NO Fdiisk, NO FAT.
Now I'll generalise it for FC, MAC, and Win XP, No Floopyboot, no Fdisk, Not FAt, No EXT2, No EXT3.

You'll get it eventually (when the floppy is gone.) Oh wait, they are gone.

Can't wait for FC 5.

SJ

jayemef · #8 13th February 2005, 07:08 AM

@SlowJet: While you make some points, filesystems are completely irrelevent in this topic.

@FedoraJim: smbfs is slowly being replaced by cifs as the standard in Fedora. As such, you may want to consider adding/replacing smbmount with mount -t cifs.

jim · #9 13th February 2005, 01:51 PM

Thanks for the tip jayemef, i'll look into it

#10 13th February 2005, 08:34 PM

ok. look this answer ===> www.s_cpmut_connctiont_i.com

sayeeth · #11 21st August 2005, 03:05 PM

I did as above and I get this error message. What am I doing wrong?

Code:

mount error 113 = No route to host

I'm also unable to do the mount command with the -o option. This is what I get.

Code:

mount: option requires an argument -- o

Scheltes · #12 30th August 2005, 07:41 PM

Is there going to be given an answer to the question of sayeeth?

I also encountered the second problem.