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Hello, Can Samba be installed on a Windows 2000 machine (then create a share) so that on the Unix side you can mount the share thats been created (the opposite of installing Samba on Unix and then mapping a drive on a Windows 2000 machine to a Unix share)? I don't need to do this, i was just wondering. ^**********************************************************************^ This email and

...boxes a Windows share mounted on one Linux box? I have successfully mounted the Windows share on the Linux server box, but when I edit /etc/exports to include the new mount and run exportfs, I get error messages regarding the new export. For example, if I add this line to /etc/exports: /mnt/windows_share somebox(rw) I will get the following error when running exportfs: somebox:/mnt/windows_share: Invalid argument I do have other NFS exports from native local filesystems working just fine! Thanks in advance! Paul

...ease apologize for any inconveniences =) I just tried out to mount a windows-share which has permissions in a domain with Active-Directory for only one specific user. all others are not permitted to read, write or do anything else. using the command mount -t smbfs -o username=john.doe //wowbagger/windows_share /mnt/shares gives me no error message, accessing the mount-dir cd /mnt/shares works ok, but now ls -la errors out with ls: shares: Permission denied also ls -la'ing /mnt does not show the shares directory anymore. Now when I change the Permissions for the windows-share back to world-...