How to find the Windows location of a Linux file
Suppose you have a Linux file location such as:
/datafiles/bigproject/smallerproject/foo/bar.txt
and you wish to open the file on a Windows machine. To do so, you must know the location of the file according to the Windows network file system, not the Linux file system location. To discover this:
- Log into a Linux machine.
- Type df. The results should look something like:
Filesystem 1k-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on /dev/hde1 100000 25000 75000 25% / /dev/hde3 1000000 250000 750000 25% /usr ... (more listings here) ... someserver:/files/bigproject/ 10000000 2500000 7500000 25% /datafiles/bigproject otherserver:/otherfiles/software/rpms/linux 1000000 250000 750000 25% /datafiles/rpms ... (more listings here) ...where the important lines are in bold face.
- From the df information we can see that /datafiles/bigproject is a share on the someserver machine in the /files/bigproject/ directory. Currently the convention seems to be that the Windows shares are made at the first subdirectory level (e.g. bigproject is a share on someserver). To access the desired file on Windows, navigate to:
\\someserver\bigproject\smallerproject\foo\bar.txt
Similarly, if we wished to access the Linux file/datafiles/rpms/mycoollinuxapp.rpm
from Windows, we would look at\\otherserver\software\rpms\linux\mycoollinuxapp.rpm