Hello to all: I am experimenting with Samba at home on a Slackware Linux box and Win NT 4.0 workstation. Simple tests worked fine, and I was able to mount a test share from my linux box to my NT box. Now, I wish to try mounting / (root) from my linux box onto my NT box. Since mounting appears to prefer more than \\host\ how do I represent mount my root partition from my NT box? For some background, I have Slackware 7.0, latest kernel (2.2.17), latest FTPed version of Samba, NT 4.0, SP 6A (3 Intel boxes, 1 Sparc 5). Thanks. Scott
On Wed, 11 Oct 2000, Scott Ehrlich wrote:> Hello to all: > > I am experimenting with Samba at home on a Slackware Linux box and Win NT > 4.0 workstation. Simple tests worked fine, and I was able to mount a > test share from my linux box to my NT box. Now, I wish to try mounting / > (root) from my linux box onto my NT box. Since mounting appears to prefer > more than \\host\ how do I represent mount my root partition from my NT > box?What do you mean by mounting from and to? Which is the server and which is the client? If samba is the server (which is what I assumed when I first read this) then you need to add / to your smb.conf, just like any other thing you want to share. /Urban
On Wed, 11 Oct 2000, Scott Ehrlich wrote:> I am experimenting with Samba at home on a Slackware Linux box and Win NT > 4.0 workstation. Simple tests worked fine, and I was able to mount a > test share from my linux box to my NT box. Now, I wish to try mounting / > (root) from my linux box onto my NT box. Since mounting appears to prefer > more than \\host\ how do I represent mount my root partition from my NT > box?Create a share entry for it in smb.conf, named whatever seems appropriate: [rootdir] path = / comment = Root directory and access as "\\host\rootdir". Regards, -- Neil Hoggarth Departmental Computer Officer <neil.hoggarth@physiol.ox.ac.uk> Laboratory of Physiology http://www.physiol.ox.ac.uk/~njh/ University of Oxford, UK