I'm new to SAMBA and am somewhat confused. So I'll get right to the point. Situation: I am running both UNIX (Solaris 9) and Windows 2000. I have a system running on Windows will be creating some large files. These files need to be input to a system running on the UNIX (Solaris) box. Solution? I would like to be able to have the system on the UNIX box be able to read the files on Windows by using SAMBA to make it a mountable drive. Is that possible? Everything I read always seems to indicate that Windows can only be a SAMBA Client and not a server. I really appreciate any help you can provide. Thanks in advance. Regards, Gerald F. George Clemson University Applications Analyst II email: geraldg@clemson.edu phone: 864.656.7973 CONFIDENTIALITY NOTICE: This e-mail, and any attachments thereto, is intended only for use by the addressee(s) named herein and may contain privileged and/or confidential information. If you are not the intended recipient of this e-mail, any dissemination, distribution or copying of this e-mail, and any attachments thereto, is strictly prohibited. If you have received this e-mail in error, please immediately notify the sender by e-mail or telephone and permanently delete all copies of this e-mail and any attachments.
> I would like to be able to have the system on the > UNIX box be able to read the files on > Windows by using SAMBA to make it a mountable drive. > Is that possible?Well, first off, I question your needs here but you know what you want better than anyone. Second, if you wan to simply mount a Winblowz partition on a Unix box (I've only used RedHat to do this), using the command; mount -t smbfs //foo/bar /foobar -o username=foo would work. Do a man mount to see if -t smbfs is valid in your Unix. Also, I know that if you build Samba, there is an option to build smbmount as well as the smbmount that comes in RedHat is a bit wierd and I believe is not a product of samba.org but rather a product of RedHat. Bri- __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Calendar - Free online calendar with sync to Outlook(TM). http://calendar.yahoo.com
On Fri, 13 Jun 2003, Gerry George wrote:> I'm new to SAMBA and am somewhat confused. So I'll get right to the point. > > Situation: > I am running both UNIX (Solaris 9) and Windows 2000. I have a system running on Windows > will be creating some large files. These files need to be input to a system running on > the UNIX (Solaris) box. > > Solution? > I would like to be able to have the system on the UNIX box be able to read the files on > Windows by using SAMBA to make it a mountable drive. Is that possible? Everything I read > always seems to indicate that Windows can only be a SAMBA Client and not a server.To allow the mounting of a Windows share on your Solaris box I suggest you check (search google) for a product called Sharity. It is the equivalent of smbfs (smbmount) on Linux. Sharity should do what you want. Cheers, John T.> > I really appreciate any help you can provide. Thanks in advance. > > > Regards, > > Gerald F. George > Clemson University > Applications Analyst II > email: geraldg@clemson.edu > phone: 864.656.7973 > > CONFIDENTIALITY NOTICE: > This e-mail, and any attachments thereto, is intended only for use by the addressee(s) > named herein and may contain privileged and/or confidential information. If you are not > the intended recipient of this e-mail, any dissemination, distribution or copying of > this e-mail, and any attachments thereto, is strictly prohibited. If you have received > this e-mail in error, please immediately notify the sender by e-mail or telephone and > permanently delete all copies of this e-mail and any attachments. > > >-- John H Terpstra Email: jht@samba.org