Mounting windows 7 shared drive from my VM in Ubuntu

Question

First my setup:

• I have Ubuntu 10.04 and i am using Oracle VirtualBox to run my Windows 7.

On my windows i have access to a the shared drives for example, all i need to do is go tools-> map drive and i can enter the name of the drive (user/password) and i am done:

\\smalldrive

so i am trying to access the same drive on ubuntu, because i dont want to open the VM just to access those files.

I have read on Liberian Geek How to mount the share on ubuntu, but i am missing some piece of information to make it work:

sudo mount -t cifs //Windows_PC/Shares /mnt/Windows -o user=username
                   ^----Here---^

how can i get the name of the computer from which i am getting the shared folder. I was thinking even if i can get the ip address i can use it in place of the name.

So unless someone has a better suggestion here is what i need:

• How can i get the ip address of the computer from the shared drive
• How can i mount it directly on ubuntu.

EDIT:

The shared drive is not on my machine but on a different machine on the network. i don't know the name of the computer nor the ip address

Answer 1

After researching for a long time, I realized it was something very easy to do.

In Windows 7, in the command line I did a ping:

ping smalldrive

This returned the IP address of the server hosting this drive.

In my Ubuntu machine I simply used a regular mount:

sudo mount -t cifs //New IP/Shares /mnt/Windows -o user=username

and now I don't have to run my Windows VM just to access this shared folder

Answer 2

You can use the IP address to mount to the Windows share. On the Windows box, go to a command prompt and type:

ipconfig[ENTER]

This should give you the IP address of the network adapter on the Windows machine.

Then on the Linux machine you can mount the share with:

sudo mount -t cifs //10.0.0.2/Shares /mnt/Windows -o user=username

Where 10.0.0.2 is the IP address of the Windows virtual machine.