I currently have a network of 3 SG Unix boxes to which I want to add an SG running WinNT, I know that I can serve unix file systems to WinNT. Is it possible to serve WInNT drives to Unix using Samba ?, If not can you suggest any possibilities. Andy White ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ---------- University of Central England Unit 2 Holt Court, Aston Science Park, Birmingham B7 4AX, UK Tel : +44 (0) 121 685 1708 (direct line) Fax: +44 (0) 121 685 1710
Hi Andrew. Yes, actually it is possible in both directions. Use smbmount to accomplish this. Note that the kernel must be compiled with smbfs on. BTW: I`m using smbmount myself with one little problem: when shutting down the machine, all network devices go down first. After that, all file systems are unmounted. My system hangs there, when I leave smb-mounts mounted, because they cannot be unmounted anymore (no NET-IFs left). Does anybody know how to solve this little ugly problem? Bye, Levent.> I currently have a network of 3 SG Unix boxes to which I want to add an SG > running WinNT, I know that I can serve unix file systems to WinNT. Is it > possible to serve WInNT drives to Unix using Samba ?, If not can you suggest > any possibilities.
Levent G?ndogdu wrote:> BTW: I`m using smbmount myself with one little problem: when shutting down > the machine, all network devices go down first. After that, all file systems are > > unmounted. My system hangs there, when I leave smb-mounts mounted, because > they cannot be unmounted anymore (no NET-IFs left). Does anybody know how > to solve this little ugly problem?Just check out shutdown scripts. If you are using RedHat (I do, so the examples come from this system) first check the numbers in the names of symlinks in /etc/rc.d/rc.0 and /etc/rc.d/rc.6. You can also write a short shutdown script which unmounts samba shares before other actions are taken (e.g. /etc/rc.d/rc.0/K01smbumount symlink that points to the /etc/rc.d/init.d/smbumount script written by you) Hope this helps. Michal