Mounting Samba Paths

I have installed the VMWare Workstation on my laptop. I am lately looking forward for using linux in the office environment. There have been problems using linux for my daily job.

The company is using Microsoft Exchange server for mail transaction. However, as linux distribution I am using, Ubuntu is hardly using Web Proxy. Despite -hard or not- ability to use the Web Proxy, I am unable to use Evolution’s exchange addon through the web proxy. This might be dangerous for long term usages. Because, there will be attachments within mails; there will meeting requests. Hence, mail usage management should not be such problemous.

On the other hand, another problem is awaiting, I suppose. Character encoding will be another problem I think. For instance, I could write my mails with characters in ISO-8859-1 but not in ISO-8859-9. What am I supposed to do for Excel files then? Is there enough support of OpenOffice to import Excel files? We’ll see…

For now, using Ubuntu with a 512 MB ram dedicated on VM tastes good. I can use anything in Linux on command shell. In the future I might be using CrossOver for Office or there will be some other way to manage mailings.

By the way, to note, I am mounting my shared folder of Windows under Linux with:

# mount.smbfs //[my_windows_host]/[shared_folder] /media/smb -o username=[windowsUserName],password=[windowsUserPassword],workgroup=[windowsMachineWorkgroup],ip=[windowsMachineIP],iocharset=iso8859-9,ro

About Options:
IP is optional
Charset is optional – but I strongly recommend expressing
ro: Meaning read-only, you can also use rw for read-write – but I do not suggest using rw to ntfs. As far as I know, still, writing on NTFS is experimental option.