Accessing Windows share without mount?

[Daniel Feenberg]

On Thu, 21 Jun 2007, Scott Ehrlich wrote:

> If I want to access a Windows/Samba share from a Windows box, I can simply 
> select Start > Run > \\windows_machine\share
>
>> From a Mac, I can select Command-K (or Go > Connect to Server) 
> smb://windows_machine/share
>
>> From a Linux machine, is there any way to do the above kind of concept 
> without having to mount the share?  Mounting is the equivalent of Windows'

If you mean less user effort, try the automounter. There are two in 
widespread use. Here are instructions for autofs:


  http://www.builderau.com.au/program/linux/soa/Automount-filesystems-with-flexible-AutoFS-tool/0,339028299,339278033,00.htm

and here for amd:

  http://www.zdnetasia.com/techguide/opensource/0,39044899,61995718,00.htm

Both create a special directory such that when you access a file in that 
directory, the appropriate filesystem is mounted auto-magically.

Daniel Feenberg


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