Mounting PC shares on a linux system (IE: hobbit)

PC's often come with a lot more disk space than UNIX machines whcih have
to share that space amoungst a lot of users.  On hobbit you can mount
exported (shared) directories from your PC.

For example: if you share out (with a password) the PC directory
"C:/my_share" from the machine  PC12345.cit.gu.edu.au

Then you can mount that directory on hobbit with

    mkdir ~/my_share
    smbmount //PC12345.cit.gu.edu.au/my_share  ~/my_share \
        -o username=vineet,fmask=600,dmask=700

The last command will ask you for the password to access that directory.

The username is to specify who is to "own" the files in the PC directory
on hobbit, while the  fmask  and  dmask  define the access rights
for files and directories.  EG:  you own it, and only you are allowed
to read/write the files and directories.  DO NOT let other users
write to this directory!

When you are finished with the directory you can unmount it with

   smbumount  ~/my_share

By mounting a PC directory you can temporaryly access the files and the
larger disk space you have available on your PC.


DO NOT mount your PC share in a Web directory (like "public_html") as it
will not be re-mounted is hobbit is rebooted, and can hang if you PC
crashes.

Only mount the directory while you need the directory, then unmount it
when finished.

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For more specific details of using "samba" for mounting PC shares see
   http://www.cit.gu.edu.au/~anthony/info/apps/samba.hints