All,
I have a rather trivial inquiry which may have been answered previously but
I do not recall seeing a response to it in any of the digests.
I admin a small network including several RS6000 machines running AIX 4.2
and a number of Win95 R2 machines. I am currently using Samba 1.9.17p4 with
no problems whatsoever.
I have recently acquired a 9gig external scsi drive which I have hanging
off one of the PC's. I was wondering if there is any way to use samba (or
otherwise) to map this drive onto the Samba server (RS6000 machine). The
extra disk space would come in handy. Are there any problems in using an
external scsi in this way ?
As a secondary topic did anyone respond to the question posed last week
regarding ascii / binary file conversion on samba mounted filesystems. I
quite often need to drop text files to and from my unix boxes and have not
found a way to make them transfer as ascii correctly. Currently I resort to
using an ftp program from my PC side to do the job but it would be nice to
be able to drag and drop.
I apologise if these questions have already been answered but as I said I
didn't find anything in the FAQ or digests to help me out.
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A. Goninan & Co.
Jeff Darby jdarby@goninan.com.au
Structural Design Engineer Ph: (02) 49238615 FEA
Network Administrator Fax: (02) 49238501
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On Tue, 4 Nov 1997 10:03:26 +1100, you wrote:>All, > >I have a rather trivial inquiry which may have been answered previously but >I do not recall seeing a response to it in any of the digests. > >I admin a small network including several RS6000 machines running AIX 4.2 >and a number of Win95 R2 machines. I am currently using Samba 1.9.17p4 with >no problems whatsoever. > >I have recently acquired a 9gig external scsi drive which I have hanging >off one of the PC's. I was wondering if there is any way to use samba (or >otherwise) to map this drive onto the Samba server (RS6000 machine). The >extra disk space would come in handy. Are there any problems in using an >external scsi in this way ?As far as I am aware the mounting of an SMB server's drives has not been achieved on anything but Linux and NEXT. You may, however, wish to look at using a freeware NFSD on your 95 machine, such as the one available at http://www.jgaa.com (I have yet to try this out myself, but it looks promising).> >As a secondary topic did anyone respond to the question posed last week >regarding ascii / binary file conversion on samba mounted filesystems. I >quite often need to drop text files to and from my unix boxes and have not >found a way to make them transfer as ascii correctly. Currently I resort to >using an ftp program from my PC side to do the job but it would be nice to >be able to drag and drop. >There is currently no way to do this directly through samba, however there are a few windows programs kicking around which will accept files from drag and drop (or some similare method) and then do the crlf <-> lf conversion, so you could convert the file before moving it onto the samba server or after simply by dropping it into this program. I believe someone pointed you to just such a program, take a dig around in the digests at http://samba.anu.edu.au/samba/ and find your original message and replies to it.