[Samba] Wan shares
Andrew Gaffney
agaffney at skylineaero.com
Fri May 14 02:24:31 GMT 2004
tms3 wrote:
> Here's a puzzler.
>
> I know that in winblowz you can map network drive \\ip addy\share,
> however you cannot do this with smbfs.
Yes you can. Try "smbmount '\\netbios name\share' /mnt/point -o ip=<IPADDR>".
This will contact the server via IP and then verify that that machine is
'netbios name'.
> OK so I create a local DNS record such that server resolves to this ip
> addy. Winblowz will mount that way, but smbfs won't. Oh yeah, this
> share is located at an IP addy at a sattelite office over the internet.
> Is this simply not doable?
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Andrew Gaffney
Network Administrator
Skyline Aeronautics, LLC.
636-357-1548
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