VMware and Samba
By jeltsch on Mon, 05/21/2007 - 21:13VMware can interfere with Samba. When you are running a samba server on your computer and install VMware, you might break your samba server. You can check that by:
sudo /etc/init.d/smb status
The fact that everything looks different doesn't mean that all has changed...
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What nfs and smb shares are available on a server (showmount, smbclient)?
By jeltsch on Thu, 04/05/2007 - 21:43The command to figure out what shares are available e.g. on the computer 192.168.0.2 type:
For nfs: /usr/sbin/showmount -e 192.168.0.2
For samba: smbclient -L 192.168.0.2
Windows NT, network browsing, mounting and disconnecting from network drives (command netuse)
By jeltsch on Thu, 04/05/2007 - 21:30Network browsing in Windows is a mystery. Sometimes some computers simply don't show up when browsing a network. This seems to be especially true for Linux servers. Under newer versions of the Windows OS (2000, XP), you can connect to a server (if you know its IP adress) via the mount network drive command even though the network browser cannot see that server. Windows NT doesn't have that option. The only possibility is to use the "net use" command from the command line. This is uncomfortable, although one can make .bat files for frequently used connections.