Mount a Windows share from Ubuntu
You'd think by now a simple solution to this would have percolated up to the top few results in a Google search. Sadly not.
ajlaptop:~> sudo apt-get install smbfs [...] ajlaptop:~> sudo mount -t cifs '\\AJ\Music' /mnt/home-music -o username=alex ajlaptop:~>
Into fstab:
\\AJ\Music /mnt/home-music smbfs credentials=/home/aj/.smbpasswd-home-aj,noauto,uid=aj,gid=aj,ro 0 0
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I got this nice message when installing drivers on my brother's old-but-newly-formatted machine. The motherboard is a Gigabyte GA-K8NF-9 (runs Athlon64 CPUs), the installers were from Gigabyte's website, and used the InstallShield wrapper. I had a fresh WinXP SP1a install, and this message appeared despite the >100gb free space.
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Enjoy your cheap 3g :)
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