how to connect ubuntu to a shared drive...

when connecting Kubuntu to another Kubuntu machine, is the workgroup name used?




In this example they used the workgroup name...
http://www.7tutorials.com/how-access-windows-7-shared-folders-ubuntu
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Samba Client - Manual Configuration

This section covers how to manually configure and connect to a SMB file server from an Ubuntu client. smbclient is a command line tool similar to a ftp connection while smbfs allows you to mount a SMB file share. Once a SMB share is mounted it acts similar to a local hard drive (you can access the SMB share with your file browser (nautilus, konqueror, thunar, other).

Connecting to a Samba File Server from the command line

Connecting from the command line is similar to a ftp connection.

List public SMB shares with

smbclient -L //server -U user

Connect to a SMB share with

smbclient //server/share -U user

Enter you user password.

You can connect directly with

smbclient //server/share -U user%password

but your password will show on the screen (less secure).

Once connected you will get a prompt that looks like this :

smb: \>

Type "help" , without quotes, at the prompt for a list of available commands.

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markus2107 Registered Member Posts 32 Karma 0 OS

Mounting smb shares on Dolphin Sat Oct 20, 2012 11:12 am Hey, I've noticed, that browsing samba shares via Dolphin is extremely slow However, mounting them via Code: Select all sudo sudo mount -t cifs //server/shared/folder /mnt/whatever/ -o user=markus,password=xxxx,workgroup=WORKGROUP, ip=192.168.0.001 is way faster than with dolphin. Is there an easy solution to make dolphin mount them like i did, just by clicking on the shared partition?

Mamarok Manager Posts 3047 Karma 8 OS

Re: Mounting smb shares on Dolphin Sun Oct 21, 2012 10:44 am Did you try adding it to your /etc/fstab? That should mount it on startup, you can then just add it to Places in Dolphin.