mapping win98 drive to linux server

[EuphonicTrash]

I have a home network of three computers, a win95 client,
a win98se client, and a Redhat 6.1 server. I have samba
up and running, with all the shares set up the way I want them. I have a demo version of Arkeia, automated backup software. My problem is that the drive I want to back up the shares to is on the windows 98 client. It's a USB zip250. The server is an old P90 (no USB port).

How can I mount the zip drive to a directory on the Linux box?

I saw a previous thread suggesting smbclient and smbmount. But it appears that they only connect to a computer running a samba server and the windows box isn't (duh). Am I wrong on this?

I'd assume my other alternative would be something like NFs, but it doesn't seem to work with anything but Unix/Linux file systems.

I suppose I could just map the stuff I want backed up to a network drive on windows, then use the Iomega software to back it up, but the iomega backup program will only run if root is logged on to the windows client. And obviously, it's not good (or even feasable in my situation)to leave root logged on all night while the backups are being performed.

 

[techhead]

Try this. On the Windows box share the drive you want to back up to. Give full access without a password. On the Linux box open a terminal, cd to /mnt directory mkdir Win98Backup and mount the drive with the command mount -t vfat //Win98MachineName/SharedDriveName /mnt/Win98backup.
Hope this helps.

 

[EuphonicTrash]

I finally got it. it is smbmount, but it's

smbmount //computername/sharename /mnt/mountdir

as opposed to

smbmount '\\computername/sharename' /mnt/mntdir

I also tried the IP address before posting the original message...it didn't and still doesn't work (for me).

Thanks Techhead for the suggestion. When I try to mount it with the regular old mount command, I get a "special device not found" error.