HOWTO:Faster network file transfers

**whoscheesemine** · March 15th, 2008

When I entered command:

Code:

mount -t cifs //network/share /media/networkshare

I got this:

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mount error: could not find target server. TCP name network/share not found
No ip address specified and hostname not found

**ashrack** · March 15th, 2008

if you don't have Winbind installed then you have to connect through IP address and not DNS address

**whoscheesemine** · March 15th, 2008

I hate to be a stooge.... but wha? could someone explain that to me a lil dummer?

**ashrack** · March 16th, 2008

sorry for not replying sonner had been busy.
Anyway here's some WIKI info about IP address:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IP_address
Every computer has a unique IP address. But since IP address are harder to remember then DNS names we use names.
You can try it by doing this in a terminal:

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ping www.google.com

and you will see that the address 'www.google.com' translates into its IP number.

So try to ping the other computer by its IP number

**Xyphoid** · May 14th, 2009

Hya,

How do I get my folder to automount on boot?
I tried the option auto and _netdev, but it still won't automount on boot.
If I mount manually with mount -a, then fstab works fine.

Never mind.
All my problems (including webcam that wasn't working) were because I burned an Ubuntu CD with a faulty DVD burner. Which caused Ubuntu to not install correctly. It took me three days (and two nights. I'm soooooo tired, but so happy everything is working now

) to figure that out.