Re: Question about mounting network shares from Live CD

Paul Gray <[email protected]> writes:

> On Mon, 16 Feb 2004, Jim Adams wrote:
>
>> Greetings all,
>> First, thanks for what appears to be an IT
>> administrator's dream distro. I need to save files on
>> a farked windows98 box by booting with BBC, mounting a
>> share on a Netmax Linux server, copying the files from
>> the dead HD to the Linux Server, and then once the
>> Win98 machine is back up and running, reloading the
>> files from the server.
>>
>> I haven't had any problem at all getting the cd to
>> boot and and the network configured. I tried mounting
>> the server share with mount -t ....., but it wouldn't
>> work. What would be the best way to do this?
>
> Is it nfs? (start portmap) or samba (mount -t smb)?

I think smbmount is preferred in the latter case.  If that fails,
smbclient may be worth a shot.