Question about smbsh / smbfs / smbmount
Stephen L Arnold
sarnold at coyote.rain.org
Sat Jun 5 05:02:47 GMT 1999
On 5 Jun 99, RVE at mn-services.nl had questions about Question about
smbsh / smbfs / smbmount:
> Now my question. We also want to work the other way around. So
> mounting a Windows NT share as an Unix (AIX) filesystem. I found
> it very hard on finding information on that subject. So can you
> tell me what the best option is (smbsh, smbfs or smbmount) ?
>
> We have now a workaround using SMBCLIENT. The disadvantage of
> this is that it isn't a permanent situation such as a filesystem.
> Also somewhere you must hardcode the NT Username and Password.
> Just to remind you we are running on AIX 4.2.
I'm not sure about smbfs support for AIX (I'm a linux guy). With
linux, smbfs is just another filesystem supported by the kernel.
smbclient and smbmount are inter-related, and both rely on the
smbfs support in the kernel. With AIX, it must be kluged on there
somehow. I think your best bet would be smbsh, but I haven't used
it yet (only read posts by others who have).
If it's an IBM PowerPC machine, is there a chance the PPC version
of linux would run on it? Just a thought...
Steve
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