If you want to have access to Windows shares and mount them like normal drives in Linux, use the smbmount command: smbmount “\\\\WINDOWS\\c” -c ‘mount /mount/Windows’ -I 192.168.0.3 where “\\\\WINDOWS\\c” is the name of the share and /mount/Windows is the destination point. You need the Samba package installed for this as it contains the smbmount… Read More »
Dropt these lines into your smb.conf file to speed up Samba access. Find the Global area section and paste them underneath: read size = 65536 read prediction = true socket options = TCP_NODELAY SO_RCVBUF=8192 SO_SNDBUF=8192 Depending on your network card and configuration, this should speed up your LAN transfers at least tenfold.
In Linux, you can access Samba shares by using a SSH prompt. We need a host PC (65.219.4.23) and a destination PC (192.168.0.81). We’ll use jack as a username but first we’ll create a new mount directory: mkdir -p /samba/share Now we connect to it: ssh -N -L 139:192.168.0.81:139 jack@65.219.4.23 jack@65.219.4.23 Now we do a… Read More »