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sym
08-17-2001, 12:16 PM
I am toying with sneaking Linux into an all windows environment. Is it possible to "map an network drive" from windows (client) to a Linux box (server) without the windows machine running any special software?

Thanks.
inoci
08-17-2001, 12:48 PM
yup. samba does it, but the details are a bit involved. lots of how-tos are available on this, takea look around.
Silent Bob
08-17-2001, 12:57 PM
You may find that your dist. already has samba etc. already set up.

I was looking into mounting network drives and found that
mount -t smbfs -o username=username,password=password //Compname/directory /mnt/MountPoint/
worked fine straight out of the box.

The only thing is that if the network directory has a space in it's name you will need to enclose the entire directory path in quotes
ie "//Compname/directory with spaces"

HTH

[ 17 August 2001: Message edited by: Silent Bob ]
sym
08-17-2001, 01:04 PM
You may find that your dist. already has samba etc. already set up.

I was looking into mounting network drives and found that
mount -t smbfs -o username=username,password=password //Compname/directory /mnt/MountPoint/
worked fine straight out of the box.

right, but I'm trying to figure out the other way, where a Windows machine accesses a Linux directory.

[ 17 August 2001: Message edited by: sym ]
Usulsuspct
08-17-2001, 01:26 PM
Samba is what you want. I did the same thing your talking about, I put all my MP3z on a linux server...and mapped the drive to win2k...

As far as I can tell there is no difference, using a samba share from windows and a windows share from windows.

I used the NHF on this site, to set mine up.
Bokkenka
08-17-2001, 01:33 PM
Originally posted by sym:
<STRONG>right, but I'm trying to figure out the other way, where a Windows machine accesses a Linux directory.</STRONG>

Samba is the Open Source Software implementation of M$'s Server Message Block (SMB) protocol. SMB is how Windows computers share directories. So, since Samba speaks SMB, it looks just like another Win box on the network. It shows up in Network Neighborbood, and it shares directories and printers, without any new software needed on the Win boxes.