mount NTBOX

[Karl Jones]

I assume the same goes for Samba 2.0.8 running on SCO OpenServer 5.5.

(Quick side question- I was hoping for one-stop-shopping with Samba but it
looks like I need to turn to NFS to mount other Unix filesystems
(AIX<->SCO).  Can you confirm this?  Thanks.)

----- Original Message -----
From: MCCALL,DON (HP-USA,ex1) <don_mccall at hp.com>
To: 'Karl Jones' <kjones at dbs1.com>; <c>
Sent: Thursday, May 03, 2001 9:26 AM
Subject: RE: mount NTBOX


> Hi Karl,
> Yep, the s/w involved to mount a windows share to a *nix mountpoint via
cifs
> is NOT compiled/tested/shipped with AIX; smbmount,smbfs,smbsh... are not
> available
> on that platform; as you suggest, these are primarily a Linuxism.
> Sharity is a commercial product (they have a 'lite' version that is free,
I
> believe)
> that does something similar (allowing you to mount a windows share as a
unix
> fs);
> but it is not associated with the Samba distribution.
> You can get more info about sharity from the following url:
>
> http://www.obdev.at
>
> But I do not believe they have a port of this for AIX...
>
> Hope this helps,
> Don
>  "Reason, not volume, is the primary
> differentiator between a discussion, and an
> argument."
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Karl Jones [mailto:kjones at dbs1.com]
> Sent: Thursday, May 03, 2001 10:14 AM
> To: samba at samba.org
> Subject: Re: mount NTBOX
>
>
> If I may jump in here... I too am left with a question about which command
> to use.
>
> I have Samba 2.0.7 installed on AIX 4.3.3 and am trying to find a way to
> mount a Windows share.  I have seen mention made of smbmount, smbfs,
smbsh,
> sharity, and smbwrapper.  None of these are included on my installation
> (binaries downloaded from AIX's unofficial shareware site - BULL).  I am
> assuming that some of these are bundled with Linux installations only.
>
> Suggestions?
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Urban Widmark <urban at teststation.com>
> To: <adrianm at cck.com.au>
> Cc: <samba at samba.org>
> Sent: Thursday, May 03, 2001 4:11 AM
> Subject: Re: mount NTBOX
>
>
> > On Thu, 3 May 2001 adrianm at cck.com.au wrote:
> >
> > > Hello Support,
> >
> > This is not support.
> >
> > > I can understand that Samba allow us to mount a shared drive from the
> Unix
> > > server on to any NT box that connected to it. But how do i go about
> mounting a
> > > shared drive from an NT box to the Unix/Samba server.
> >
> > Depends on what your Unix/Samba server is running (your message lacks
> > which OS, versions of relevant things)
> >
> > smbfs, sharity(-light), smbsh may all be options for you.
> >
> > /Urban
> >
> >
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