Can't mount a samba share

[jimgardner1973]

In the dictionary under the word slow, there's a picture of me. I'm not an idiot but I do need things spelling out for me sometimes.

All day I've been trying to figure out the correct syntax for mounting a shared samba directory on my Mac so that I can see it in Wine and use some Windows software I "need".

Wine is running this software well, but I can't have it work with my files which need to be kept on the Mac because I can't mount the Mac shared directory.

I tried using:

$ sudo mount //192.168.10.2/myusername /home/jimslinux/Desktop

But I get an error saying the address can't be found in etc/fstab (what ever that's supposed to mean!)

I can however create a shortcut on the KDE desktop which points to the shared directory on my Mac, simply by entering smb://192.168.10.2/myusername in the address bar of any KDE window.

Can someone please tell me how I convince winecfg that //192.168.10.2/myusername is a drive which it can assign a virtual Windows drive letter to? In other words, how do I mount a remotely shared folder as a drive?

Thanks in advance.

[sky]

Re: Can't mount a samba share

Hi,

So you should open the file /etc/fstab (for example with kate : kdesu kate /etc/fstab)
and add the following line :
//192.168.10.2/myusername /home/jimslinux/Desktop smbfs username=...,password=...,rw,uid=username,umask=00 0 0 0

Hope it helps