[arch-general] Help mounting Windows drive

[Tom Rand]

On Mon, Sep 10, 2012 at 03:23:27PM +0100, Stephen Martin wrote:
> Is /Users a valid share on your system?
> 
> Sent from my iPhone
> 
> On 10 Sep 2012, at 02:25, Randy <gumper1034 at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> > 
> > In the past I have been able to mount my Windows computer using the following command:
> > 
> > "mount -t cifs -o username=USERNAME,password=PASSWORD //192.168.1.107/Users/gumper /mnt/share/"
> > 
> > Now when I try this I receive the message:
> > 
> > "Unable to find suitable address".
> > 
> > I am able to ping the IP address without any problem.
> > 
> > Any idea what I'm doing wrong here?
> > 
> > Thanks,
> > 
> > 
> > Randy


If he has shared the home folder for his username then Users would be a valid share but you would
only see the folder pertaining to said user name
so:
C:\Users\gumper would give access to 
C:\Users but the folder gumper would be the only folder/item visible