samba - Jan 2001 - Samba mounting of win2000 drives

Hello :)

I was thinking of installing samba on my solaris 2.6 server. I have samba
running at home on my linux box which shares its big disks and printers
etc with my windows machines and all work ok but...before I go about
setting it up at work I have a question - does it work int he reverse way?

That is, if I run a samba server and client on my solaris machine
obviously my windows 2000 machine will be able to see the shared solaris
dirves through network neighbourhood but is will solaris, acting as a
client, be able to see my shared windows 2000 drives??

Thanks :)

Melinda

On Thu, 11 Jan 2001, Melinda Taylor wrote:
> That is, if I run a samba server and client on my solaris machine
> obviously my windows 2000 machine will be able to see the shared solaris
> dirves through network neighbourhood but is will solaris, acting as a
> client, be able to see my shared windows 2000 drives??
It should, unless the win2k is in "native" active directory mode, or
whatever it's called. Something like 'smbclient -L win2kbox' will
list the
shared drives.

You can also use smbclient as a ftp style client to access files.
smbwrapper(smbsh) should work on solaris (?) or perhaps sharity(-light),
both give you a more filesystem-like view (I assume, I haven't actually
used either ...)

/Urban