We have a Sun box physically located at another site running Solaris 2.6 We perform administration remotely using telnet, CRT and others from Windows 95/98 workstations. We are want to use Samba to allow mapping to certain directories on the Sun Server. The documentation I have seem to only reference installation of Samba on the Sun Server. Our workstations do not have the Solaris Operating system loaded. Do I need to install Samba on the Windows 95/98 workstations? If so, where do I find documentation. Is it possible to map drives from a Windows 95/98 client to a Sun Server? Thanks, Steven Hawks NCR Corporation IT Services - GAD Sales and Business Infrastructure * 1529 Brown St., EMD/4, Dayton, Oh 45479 * * (937) 445-3946, fax 445-0375, voiceplus 622-3946 * SH151002@ncr.com
On Fri, 14 Jul 2000, Hawks, Steven L wrote:> We have a Sun box physically located at another site running Solaris 2.6 > > We perform administration remotely using telnet, CRT and others from Windows^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ remotely using ssh?> 95/98 workstations. > We are want to use Samba to allow mapping to certain directories on the Sun > Server. > > The documentation I have seem to only reference installation of Samba on the > Sun Server.Yes, samba provides smb file & print sharing, which is a server function and something all current windows versions already has (that of course doesn't mean that it is impossible to port samba to run on windows ... :)> Is it possible to map drives from a Windows 95/98 client to a Sun Server?You can access the drives of a windows box from the sun box using a smb client, such as smbclient :) which is included with samba. There are a few other clients mentioned on the samba webpages. You may run into networking problems (firewalls, security) since the server isn't "local". /Urban