Samba

MiCr0 · 14-01-2002 8:05pm #1

hi,
i'm trying to setup samba on a rh7.2 server.

i need to get it to talk to a WinXP machine.
does any one know how to get this to work
ie the linux machine able to read the XP's shared drives?

tia
MiCr0

Hecate · 14-01-2002 9:40pm

smbmount is what you want.

Theres quite a few options for it, take a look at the manpage for smbmount.

MiCr0 · 14-01-2002 10:25pm

cheers
i'll check it out

Samba · 14-01-2002 11:20pm

Maybe i could be of assitance

j/k,

Saw this post and thought someone had nabbed my account and was doin silly things

flamegrill · 15-01-2002 10:27am

Micro

For ease of setting up samba, use SWAT which comes with samba. swat is the samba web administraion tool.

Also the latest version of samba can allow XP/2k logins and provide very similar if not the same features of a PDC. this has been long awaited. give it a try and let us know how you get on

l8r
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moist · 15-01-2002 6:44pm

And don't forget to disable SWAT when your finished configuring it

Its had some issues in the past.....

Hecate · 15-01-2002 7:27pm

actually come to think of it, this should work fine:

smbclient //WINDOWS-BOX/SHARE/ -U WINDOWS-USERNAME

just tried that there and it connected to a win98 share on my network perfectly, the username is optional but you'll probabaly need it when accessing the XP/2k share.

once you run that command, it will prompt you for a password, just press enter if you didnt set the username argument beforehand. It should then display a smb: \> prompt.

Don't know too much about the syntax, I think it uses some different from standard shell commands.

You might have a problem with those long windows filenames though

sisob · 15-01-2002 9:38pm

Originally posted by flamegrill

Also the latest version of samba can allow XP/2k logins and provide very similar if not the same features of a PDC. this has been long awaited. give it a try and let us know how you get on

what do you mean by PDC?

are you saying it can act like a NT doman name server? where did you hear about that?

i was under the impression that it was very illegal to do that

logic1 · 16-01-2002 8:37am

I assume he means primary domain controller and fail to see how it would be illegal.

.logic.

flamegrill · 16-01-2002 11:16pm

Originally posted by sisob

what do you mean by PDC?

are you saying it can act like a NT doman name server? where did you hear about that?

i was under the impression that it was very illegal to do that

As logic1 said i mean Primary Domain Controller not domain name server, and either way it would in no way be illegal.

a good place to start to find info on such things as Name Servers
and Domain Controllers is microsoft.com :P

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