Connecting my Linux to NT Server

[Bradley]

I have a linux machine that I would like to connect to a windows NT 4.0 server. So I access serverside data.

Is this even possible?? If it is how can I do it?

Thanks a lot

[friend621]

Yes it is possible. I have a similar situation too. It can be done with sambaclient. You need to know the workgroup that you want to mount. It can be a done with a simple command.
" mount -f smbfs -o username=<username>,password=<password>,ip=<ip> '\\WORKGROUP\' /mnt/<YourMountPoint> "

Where username, password and ip corresponds to the NT machine. Make sure that you have the mount point created before you try this command.

An eazy way to fing the work group is by

"smbclient -L -I <ipAdd of NT> -U username "

The mount might give you an error when you run the command depeding on the security of your NT but it still mounts the file system. You can put it in a script file or put it in the startup script.

Hope this helps.