We have been using Samba to provide shares on out Linux boxes for Windows clients up to now and it has worked very well. However, we are now moving to replace the Windows/Office PC software with RedHat 7.2 and StarOffice 6 and so I would like to know how to attach to the same Linux Samba shares with a Linux client. Before, the staff used to have "F-Drive", "S-Drive" and "U-Drive" for their relative data storage/retrieval. What will they have now? Regards, Brad Brisbane, Australia __________________________________________________________________ Your favorite stores, helpful shopping tools and great gift ideas. Experience the convenience of buying online with Shop@Netscape! http://shopnow.netscape.com/ Get your own FREE, personal Netscape Mail account today at http://webmail.netscape.com/
You can leave the shares on the servers and just mount the shares to your workstations. ie: mount -t smbfs //server/share /mountpoint -o username=?,password=? Just create directories under root that you want to mount to. You can do something like /F or /network/F. -----Original Message----- From: samba-admin@lists.samba.org [mailto:samba-admin@lists.samba.org]On Behalf Of Brad Sent: Wednesday, October 31, 2001 2:29 PM To: samba@lists.samba.org Subject: Attaching to Samba shares.. We have been using Samba to provide shares on out Linux boxes for Windows clients up to now and it has worked very well. However, we are now moving to replace the Windows/Office PC software with RedHat 7.2 and StarOffice 6 and so I would like to know how to attach to the same Linux Samba shares with a Linux client. Before, the staff used to have "F-Drive", "S-Drive" and "U-Drive" for their relative data storage/retrieval. What will they have now? Regards, Brad Brisbane, Australia __________________________________________________________________ Your favorite stores, helpful shopping tools and great gift ideas. Experience the convenience of buying online with Shop@Netscape! http://shopnow.netscape.com/ Get your own FREE, personal Netscape Mail account today at http://webmail.netscape.com/ -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the instructions: http://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/samba --- Incoming mail is certified Virus Free. Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). Version: 6.0.292 / Virus Database: 157 - Release Date: 10/26/01 -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: smime.p7s Type: application/x-pkcs7-signature Size: 2254 bytes Desc: not available Url : http://lists.samba.org/archive/samba/attachments/20011031/7c14da1e/smime.bin
You can call them anything you want. The share name in smb.conf will, I believe, look the same to a linux client as to a windows client. Joel On Wed, Oct 31, 2001 at 02:29:14PM -0500, Brad wrote:> We have been using Samba to provide shares on out Linux boxes for Windows clients up to now and it has worked very well. > > However, we are now moving to replace the Windows/Office PC software with RedHat 7.2 and StarOffice 6 and so I would like to know how to attach to the same Linux Samba shares with a Linux client. Before, the staff used to have "F-Drive", "S-Drive" and "U-Drive" for their relative data storage/retrieval. What will they have now?
On Wed, 31 Oct 2001, Brad wrote:> We have been using Samba to provide shares on out Linux boxes for > Windows clients up to now and it has worked very well. > > However, we are now moving to replace the Windows/Office PC software > with RedHat 7.2 and StarOffice 6 and so I would like to know how to > attach to the same Linux Samba shares with a Linux client. Before, the > staff used to have "F-Drive", "S-Drive" and "U-Drive" for their > relative data storage/retrieval. What will they have now?Why attach them to samba? For linux there is smbfs, but why not use NFS between the linux boxes? (Parallel with the samba server if you need to support windows clients too). NFS has the advantage, for unix clients, of trying to be a unix filesystem, smb does not. Look for a NFS howto or the docs in your RH distro. NFS (or smbfs) allows you to map a remote directory into your local directory tree. To make windows users feel at home you could call the local directories where you mount the remote something based on letters: /mnt/f /mnt/s ... (I suppose you could give them a /F: if you really, really wanted) But that could just as well be based on something meaningful /import/servername/directoryname /import/ada/documents /import/ada/games ... /Urban