SAMBA digest 1925

Thomas Grossenbacher big-riffer at bluewin.ch
Mon Jan 4 18:38:52 GMT 1999



samba at samba.org schrieb:

>                             SAMBA Digest 1925
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> Topics covered in this issue include:
>
>   1) UNIX to PC
>         by Shaun Lennox <shaun at countyfair.co.za>
>   2) Connect to exported filesystem from NT via a net use cmd
>         by "Xia Tian" <tianx at hotmail.com>
>   3) Re: From UNIX to PC ?
>         by Majid Tajamolian <majid at bol.sharif.ac.ir>
>   4) Sharing TAPES ?
>         by Ilya L Ovchinnikov <ilya at psn.ru>
>   5) Re: From UNIX to PC ?
>         by Benjamin Scott <bscott at hamptonsys.com>
>   6) Re: From UNIX to PC
>         by "Tajthy Tamas" <tajthy at mail.euroweb.hu>
>   7) Encrypted passwords and OS2/Win95/Win98
>         by "Steve Snyder" <ssnyder at indy.net>
>   8) Re: From UNIX to PC ?
>         by afan at www.jeonet.com (Afan Ottenheimer)
>   9) Re: mapped drives do not appear
>         by "Stephen L Arnold" <arnold.steve at ensco.com>
>
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
>
> Date: Tue, 29 Dec 1998 08:53:08 +0000
> From: Shaun Lennox <shaun at countyfair.co.za>
> To: samba at samba.org, David Junyent <Djunyent at bcn.audifilm.com>
> Subject: UNIX to PC
> Message-ID: <36889874.77F3D926 at countyfair.co.za>
>
> David,
>
> I think you need to use smbmount / umount but from what I can gather it
> only works with Linux so far. Then again I could be wrong.
>
> Check the readme's in the installation directories - very helpfull.
>
> Good Luck
> -------------------------------------------------------
> Shaun Lennox                Tel : 27-83-409-6769
> P.O. Box 94                  Fax : 27-21-54-6605
> Eppindust                 mailto:shaun at countyfair.co.za
> South Africa,7475
>      System Administrator (AIX) County Fair Foods
> -------------------------------------------------------
>
> ------------------------------
>
> Date: Mon, 28 Dec 1998 23:08:06 PST
> From: "Xia Tian" <tianx at hotmail.com>
> To: samba at samba.org
> Subject: Connect to exported filesystem from NT via a net use cmd
> Message-ID: <19981229070806.12885.qmail at hotmail.com>
>
> Hello,
>
> I've installed SAMBA on UNIX system and also set up smb.conf file. When
> I try to do is using net use cmd to connect to the UNIX system from my
> own PC (NT workstation) , I always get the error like : The network name
> can not be found. How to solve the problem? shall i set up on NT domain
> or workstation ?
>
> Thanks
>
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> ------------------------------
>
> Date: Tue, 29 Dec 1998 10:49:07 +0330 (IST)
> From: Majid Tajamolian <majid at bol.sharif.ac.ir>
> To: David Junyent <Djunyent at bcn.audifilm.com>
> Subject: Re: From UNIX to PC ?
> Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.3.96.981229104410.5285A-100000 at peik.bol.sharif.ac.ir>
>
> Hi David,
> Please read the smbclient(1), smbmnt(8), smbmount(8) and smbumount(8) man
> pages.
>
> -- Cheers,
>    M. Tajamolian
>
> ------------------------------
>
> Date: Tue, 29 Dec 1998 10:55:55 +0300
> From: Ilya L Ovchinnikov <ilya at psn.ru>
> To: samba at samba.org
> Subject: Sharing TAPES ?
> Message-ID: <19981229105555.A12726 at psn.ru>
>
> Hello!
>
> Is it possible to make a tape attached to unix host visible
> to windows PCs via Misrosoft's protocol?
> Now our users should telnet to the unix station and use smbtar.
> They want to use backup utilities from Windows.  Is it possible?
>
> Sincerely,
> Ilya Ovchinnikov       -------------------------------------
>                           Internet Service and Information
>  ILO2-RIPE                Providing Center of Pushchino
>  e-mail: ilya at psn.ru      Research Center of RAS
>  phone: +7(0967)73-90-03  Pushchino, Moscow region, Russia.
> ============================================================
>
> ------------------------------
>
> Date: Tue, 29 Dec 1998 09:14:25 -0500 (EST)
> From: Benjamin Scott <bscott at hamptonsys.com>
> To: David Junyent <Djunyent at bcn.audifilm.com>
> Subject: Re: From UNIX to PC ?
> Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.05.9812290910520.23815-100000 at benden.hamptonsys.com>
>
> On Mon, 28 Dec 1998, David Junyent wrote:
> > WHERE can I find information on how to access to the PC
> > resources from our UNIX workstations?
>
>   There is a generic SMB client program included with Samba called
> 'smbclient'.  It attempts to emulate the look and feel of the standard
> Berkeley FTP client program.  Try 'man smbclient' for details.
>
>   If you are running Linux, there is also a filesystem-level SMB client, smbfs
> (AKA ksmbfs, K for kernel).  Read 'linux/Documentation/filesystems/smbfs.txt'
> to get started.
>
>   Hope this helps.
>
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
> Benjamin Scott <bscott at hamptonsys.com>          Phone: (603)431-7315
> Hampton Systems Group, Inc.                     Fax  : (603)431-0822
> http://www.hamptonsys.com                       DSN  : 852-3581
> ======================================================================
>
> ------------------------------
>
> Date: Tue, 29 Dec 1998 15:42:04 +0100
> From: "Tajthy Tamas" <tajthy at mail.euroweb.hu>
> To: David Junyent <Djunyent at bcn.audifilm.com>
> Subject: Re: From UNIX to PC
> Message-ID: <199812291444.PAA03775 at mail.euroweb.hu>
>
> Dear David,
>
> >  We are now using samba for accesing to the UNIX resources from
> > our PC's. But my question is ...
> >
> >  WHERE can I find information on how to access to the PC
> > resources from our UNIX workstations?
> >
> >  Can somebody lead me through all of this amount of information
> > available about samba?
>
> If U use Linux, You just have to mount the PS's share like a normal mount. On
> other UNIX-es You have to use smbclient (see man).
>
> Good Byte!
>
> This is the first day of the rest of Your life!
>
> ------------------------------
>
> Date: Tue, 29 Dec 1998 10:16:09 -0500 (EST)
> From: "Steve Snyder" <ssnyder at indy.net>
> To: "Samba Mailing List" <samba at samba.anu.edu.au>
> Subject: Encrypted passwords and OS2/Win95/Win98
> Message-ID: <199812291516.KAA25394 at indy1.indy.net>
>
> My LAN is running Samba v1.9.18p10 under RedHat Linux v5.2.  Using the SMB
> services are Win95 and OS/2 clients.  It's all running fine.
>
> I will soon be adding Win98, though, and I understand that there is a
> question of password encryption.  I'm concerned how the
> encrypted/plain-text communication of password will affect my existing
> configuration.
>
> If I reconfigure Samba to use encrypted passwords, won't that effectively
> disabling logging into the shares from Win95 and OS/2?
>
> Is there a way to force Win98 to use plain-text passwords?  (Security isn't an
> issue here.)
>
> Is there a way to force Win95 and OS/2 to use encrypted passwords?
>
> Thanks.
>
> *** Steve Snyder ***
>
> ------------------------------
>
> Date: Tue, 29 Dec 1998 09:37:57 -0600
> From: afan at www.jeonet.com (Afan Ottenheimer)
> To: samba at samba.org, djunyent at audifilm.com
> Subject: Re: From UNIX to PC ?
> Message-ID: <3.0.5.32.19981229093757.00907100 at anansi.jeonet.com>
>
> >       WHERE can I find information on how to access to the PC
> >resources from our UNIX workstations?
>
> The commands you are looking for are "smbclient" and/or "smbmount" depending on
> what you want to do.
>
> >
> >       Can somebody lead me through all of this amount of information
> >available about samba?
>
> There is a list of samba consultants who I'm sure would be glad to
> walk you through the information. See the "support" section of the
> samba website.
>
> Sincerely,
> Afan
>
> *********************************************************************
>  Afan Ottenheimer, JEONET
> afan at jeo.net, http://www.jeo.net/
> *********************************************************************
>
> ------------------------------
>
> Date: Tue, 29 Dec 1998 10:14:56 -0800
> From: "Stephen L Arnold" <arnold.steve at ensco.com>
> To: samba at samba.org
> Subject: Re: mapped drives do not appear
> Message-ID: <199812291810.NAA24992 at illustrious>
>
> When the world was young, Scott Gasch carved some runes like this:
>
> > I am having trouble with samba (version 2.0beta4) and I thought
> > someone might have seen this before.  From client PCs (win98
> > and winnt 4.0) I am able to see my samba server in net hood.  I
> > am able to browse the shared filesystems.  I am able to map
> > drives.  However, when a network drive is mapped to a local
> > drive on a PC, it does not appear in the drive list in
> > explorer.  In a shell you can change to N: and see files.
> > In apps you can save to/read from N:.  But explorer does not
> > see the mapped drive... on either NT or 98.
>
> Does the Net Hood view match the explorer list of machines?  ie,
> are the machine lists out of sync?  I've been told that it's not
> supposed to happen, but I've seen it on my windoze box.  A friend
> of mine's solution is to remove all the network protocols from the
> client and re-install them.  Windoze really shouldn't corrupt
> itself like that, but I've seen it happen with other software
> (including parts of windoze) and we all know what a poor design it
> is...
>
> If the samba box shows up in *both* explorer and net hood, then you
> should be able to use explorer to map a network drive, which should
> appear in explorer's list of drives within a few seconds.
>
> We've been having different (and intermittent) network problems for
> a while (which I'm convinced are *not* due to samba), and one of
> the first things to screw up is browsing (although the IP layer
> works fine - we have no NetBEUI or IPX).  I'm pretty sure it's a
> hardware problem (but I don't have the knowledge to sniff the
> network yet); things seem to be getting a little better as the coax
> gets changed over to UTP.
>
> I'm not sure if this was helpful (but one can always hope).
>
> Later, Steve
>
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