I believe I know the answer, but I'd like to be certain, since I keep seeing references to things like smbmount and smbfs... Is it possible to mount an NT (4.0sp3) share onto a Solaris 2.6/Sparc? I just grabbed Samba 2.0.6. I suspect not (I don't see any smbmount or smbfs in my samba/bin directory). Will this ever be a possibility? If so, when? And, are there any other options for doing something equivalent (I've played around with a few different nfs solutions for NT a while back and they were all a fair bit flakey in this regard). (Adding a 20GB disk to an NT box is simply so much cheaper than a relatively equivalent 20GB scsi disk to the Solaris box...) Thanks, Joel -- Joel Riedesel Jnana Technologies Corporation mailto:jriedese@jnana.com 303 805 8275
Joel Riedesel wrote:> I suspect not (I don't see any smbmount or smbfs in my samba/bin > directory).The smbfs package (which includes the smbmount command) is linux-specific.> And, are there any other options for doing something > equivalent (I've played around with a few different nfs solutions > for NT a while back and they were all a fair bit flakey > in this regard).You can use Sharity (a professionnal product, that you may find expensive) or Sharity-light (formerly known as Rumba), the latter being actually a port of an older version of smbfs. Regards, Daniel.
Joel Riedesel wrote:> Is it possible to mount an NT (4.0sp3) share onto a > Solaris 2.6/Sparc? I just grabbed Samba 2.0.6. > ... > > And, are there any other options for doing something > equivalent (I've played around with a few different nfs solutions > for NT a while back and they were all a fair bit flakey > in this regard). > > (Adding a 20GB disk to an NT box is simply so much cheaper > than a relatively equivalent 20GB scsi disk to the Solaris box...)Here's two things you might consider. Neither one of them is perfect, of course. 1) smbsh - This is a utility/shared library that's included with 2.0.6. It's the samba team's answer to smbmount. There's a good discussion about it in the documentation directory. Most programs should be able to make use of this. As I understand the two main exceptions are ones that don't use shared libraries, and ones that use mmap() access to files. 2) Install x386 UNIX (Linux/Solaris/*BSD, etc.) The cost of the PC hardware is the same no matter what software you run on it. 2a) Find a discarded PC that you wouldn't necessarily want to put new disks on. Install Linux and smbmount the share from the NT box. Then export it to the Solaris box using NFS. If you try this, I'd be interested to hear how it works out. Regards, -james. -- James Stansell <stansell@wcg.net>