Simple question (you might think)

[MACIT]

Ok to those in the know this is probably the simplest thing in the world but the answer is eluding me.

 

I have a linux box with a mounted windows share on called say "share1"

 

i can get to in Gnome, it says its mounted and all is good

 

Question: how do i get to it in terminal? Basically i want to copy some stuff from it using a scripted command line.

 

Thanks in advance

[featured_spectre]

which version of linux are you using?

[featured_spectre]

Open your favorite terminal....btw this works in gnome and kde.

 

[user@localhost user]$ cd /mnt1/ <-as user cd yourself to the mnt1 folder and become root to create directory

[user@localhost mnt1]$ su

Password:

[root@localhost mnt1]# mkdir copyfile <- this created a directory in the mnt1 folder

 

[root@localhost mnt1]# ls /mnt1/ <-this command listed all my directories the mnt folder

 

[root@localhost mnt1]# mount /dev/sda1 /mnt1/copyfile <-this is the command to mount copyfile folder so you can copy between mounts

 

Log into windows, drop what you need into the copyfile folder.

 

[root@localhost mnt1]# ls copyfile <-lists everything there.

 

then i just copied it all to my home folder and i was done!

 

This worked under Fedora 14.

 

in terminal type as root: gedit /etc/fstab and NOW YOU CAN ADD THIS LINE TO FSTAB to auto mount it:

 

Code: /dev/sda1 /mnt1/copyfile vfat noauto,users,rw,umask=0 0 0

[MACIT]

Debian, Installed about 1 half years ago

[danbuntu]

look in /etc/fstab and find out where you mounted the share to.

 

probably /media/share1

[powdarrmonkey]

look in /etc/fstab and find out where you mounted the share to.

 

probably /media/share1

 

In modern Gnome remote Windows shares are mounted with gvfs, which doesn't interact with the real filesystem so it won't show up in /media or in /etc/fstab. gvfs-fuse fixes that, and it's packaged in gvfs-bin.

 

Older Gnome uses gnome-vgs, and if that's the case you're SOL.

 

Try looking in ~/.gvfs first, it might have just done the Right Thing™.

Edited March 23, 2011 by powdarrmonkey

[mister_z]

Not sure how your windows shares appear.

 

From a command line, does 'mount' show the file system you have mounted ?

 

If so, and if 'share1' is the only mount named like that, from a script

 

cd `mount | grep share1 | cut -d' ' -f3`

 

should put your script in that directory, in preparation for whatever copy or other commands you want to run.

 

Good luck.