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I develop web-apps using ubuntu (jaunty) but have a need to work on a site that must be hosted on windows. I've setup virtualbox with a winxp32 installation and shared the entire hard disk. My goal is to be able to use eclipse(pdt) in ubuntu to create a new php project that references my wwwroot folder of the winxp installation.
I've got everything setup so I can browse the VM via smb://192.168.../www/ with no problem. However, I'm stumped when it comes to setting up the project in eclipse since it's outside of the normal workspace. I tried tinkering with creating a symbolic link in the workspace to my share but I'm not sure how to do that.
I've tried to create a symlink to the share but ubuntu says it's broken
ln -s smb://192.../www/ windows
I've read that I need to mount the shared drive first then symlink that but don't have any experience with that.
3Thanks Florin. I had to tweak the mount command and add // in front of the IP, after that it worked like a charm. Much thanks. – Mike B – 2009-10-29T17:57:51.590
i think you actually want
mount -t cifs
if it's available.smbfs
is a good fallback but i thinkcifs
is generally the preferred of the two. – quack quixote – 2009-11-02T03:33:58.680You may have to run
mount.cifs
instead ofmount -t cifs
. – indiv – 2014-02-08T01:41:45.287