[Samba] Re: samba Digest, Vol 46, Issue 2

Prabhukumar prabhukumar at originwave.com
Sat Oct 7 02:52:09 GMT 2006


hai,
    i need following topics for your help give the full articals.pls
send .
thanks
prabhukumar






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>    1. How to handle domain logout? (DRVTiny)
>    2. vfs object recycle: could two shares use the same	repository?
>       (M. Mueller)
>    3. [Fwd: Re: [Samba] How to tell Samba not to use the passwd
>       file] (Michael Gasch)
>    4. inverse veto files (Michael Gasch)
>    5. slow wan to wan samba connection (scott)
>    6. Re: How to handle domain logout? (Ulf Nor?n)
>    7. Re: WINS over subnets (Hoggins!)
>    8. Re: Re: WINS over subnets (Edmundo Valle Neto)
>    9. Samba AD support with openldap and SASL (ShunLei_Pak at emc.com)
>   10. How to copy a file from linux to window pc (Indunil Jayasooriya)
>   11. Re: How to copy a file from linux to window pc (odi)
>   12. Horrible write performance from XP to Samba (Peter Daum)
>   13. Re: WINS over subnets (Hoggins!)
>   14. fully qualified usernames ?? (Robert Gehr)
>   15. Auth Problem (Marian Neagul)
>   16. Re: How to copy a file from linux to window pc (Gerard Seibert)
>   17. RE: fully qualified usernames ?? (Peter Trifonov)
> 
> 
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
> 
> Message: 1
> Date: Sun, 01 Oct 2006 16:22:43 +0400
> From: DRVTiny <mudraia at list.ru>
> Subject: [Samba] How to handle domain logout?
> To: samba at lists.samba.org
> Message-ID: <E1GU0LD-000Ics-00.mudraia-list-ru at mx2.mail.ru>
> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII
> 
> I need to create a server-side (bash or perl script) handler for domain user logoff event.
> Is it possible to do it theoretically and if it is possible, how can i realize this in practice?
> 
> My configuration: PDC running Samba 3.0.23b with 35 workstations under Windows 2000 Pro connected to PDC
> Thanks!
> 
> 
> ------------------------------
> 
> Message: 2
> Date: Sun, 01 Oct 2006 21:28:27 +0200
> From: "M. Mueller" <malte.mueller at ewetel.net>
> Subject: [Samba] vfs object recycle: could two shares use the same
> 	repository?
> To: samba at lists.samba.org
> Message-ID: <452016DB.4080904 at ewetel.net>
> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-15; format=flowed
> 
> Hi,
> i use the vfs-object "recycle" on the [homes] share and defined 
> recycle:repository = /backup/recycle/%G/%U/.recycle.
> What happens, when using the same repository path for another share, 
> e.g. [data]. Could this lead to data loss in the waste bin?
> I could of course branch into "/backup/recycle/%G/%U/.recycle/homes" and 
> "/backup/recycle/%G/%U/.recycle/data" but i would like to avoid that.
> 
> Thanks for any comments,
> Malte Mller
> 
> 
> ------------------------------
> 
> Message: 3
> Date: Fri, 29 Sep 2006 10:46:10 +0200
> From: Michael Gasch <gasch at eva.mpg.de>
> Subject: [Fwd: Re: [Samba] How to tell Samba not to use the passwd
> 	file]
> To: "Gerald (Jerry) Carter" <jerry at samba.org>
> Cc: samba <samba at lists.samba.org>, dtovey at emergecore.com
> Message-ID: <451CDD52.2050204 at eva.mpg.de>
> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1"
> 
> hi jerry,
> 
> >> I tested it.  I tried several permutations, using "invalid 
> >> > users" and "valid users" in both the [global] and
> >> > [homes] sections.  With the "invalid users" line
> >> > that you had (in either section), once I login as a
> >> > Domain Admin I can then get at all these system 
> >> > account directories.
> > 
> > Hmmm...ok.  Must have gotten broken then.  Thanks for
> > letting me know.
> > 
> 
> i did not verified the current state but did you make any progress in 
> this? just asking :) ...
> 
> greez
> -- 
> Michael Gasch
> Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology
> Department of Human Evolution (IT Staff)
> Deutscher Platz 6
> D-04103 Leipzig
> Germany
> 
> Phone: 49 (0)341 - 3550 137
>         49 (0)341 - 3550 374
> 
> Fax:   49 (0)341 - 3550 399
> 
> ------------------------------
> 
> Message: 4
> Date: Fri, 29 Sep 2006 11:25:31 +0200
> From: Michael Gasch <gasch at eva.mpg.de>
> Subject: [Samba] inverse veto files
> To: Jeremy Allison <jra at samba.org>
> Cc: samba <samba at lists.samba.org>
> Message-ID: <451CE68B.7020108 at eva.mpg.de>
> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed
> 
> hi jeremy,
> 
> you asked the people requesting an inverse option of "veto files" to 
> remind you to put this on 3.0.24.
> 
> just to summarize what we want:
> - have an option to set files incl. wildcards that are allowed for a 
> share (inverse of veto parameter), e.g.
> allow files = /*.odt/ # allows only odt-files to be stored on a share
> 
> regex would be nice to have but i'm aware of the complexity and possible 
> performance issues.
> 
> thx!
> micha
> 
> 
> -- 
> Michael Gasch
> Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology
> Department of Human Evolution (IT Staff)
> Deutscher Platz 6
> D-04103 Leipzig
> Germany
> 
> Phone: 49 (0)341 - 3550 137
>         49 (0)341 - 3550 374
> 
> Fax:   49 (0)341 - 3550 399
> 
> 
> 
> ------------------------------
> 
> Message: 5
> Date: Sun, 01 Oct 2006 14:38:27 -0600
> From: scott <icedutah at comcast.net>
> Subject: [Samba] slow wan to wan samba connection
> To: samba at lists.samba.org
> Message-ID: <45202743.9030204 at comcast.net>
> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed
> 
> I have a samba file server running as the pdc for a network. There are 5 
> different subnets that connect to it over ptp t1 links using cisco 
> routers. It has ran just fine for years until now. Local traffic to the 
> file server is flawless. Traffic over the other non-local links has come 
> to a halt for some reason. You can browse down a few directories but 
> after that it just kills windows explorer. All the pc's have the samba 
> server as the WINS server also and DNS server. Any help why the 
> non-local networks would act like this?
> 
> 
> ------------------------------
> 
> Message: 6
> Date: Sun, 1 Oct 2006 22:10:33 +0200
> From: Ulf Nor?n <Ulf.Noren at miun.se>
> Subject: Re: [Samba] How to handle domain logout?
> To: samba at lists.samba.org
> Cc: DRVTiny <mudraia at list.ru>
> Message-ID: <200610012210.34193.Ulf.Noren at miun.se>
> Content-Type: text/plain;  charset="iso-8859-1"
> 
> On Sunday 01 October 2006 14:22, DRVTiny wrote:
> > I need to create a server-side (bash or perl script) handler for domain
> > user logoff event. Is it possible to do it theoretically and if it is
> > possible, how can i realize this in practice?
> >
> > My configuration: PDC running Samba 3.0.23b with 35 workstations under
> > Windows 2000 Pro connected to PDC Thanks!
> 
> A "clean" logoff can be handled through a logout script on the client. That 
> script could connect to a special share on the server that has a configured 
> preexec-script.
> 
> I use this teqnique for logging purposes.
> 
> /ULf
> 
> -- 
> Ulf Norn
> IT-avd, Mittuniversitetet
> 0660-57899,070-5142781
> 
> 
> ------------------------------
> 
> Message: 7
> Date: Mon, 02 Oct 2006 01:45:52 +0200
> From: "Hoggins!" <hoggins at wheres5.com>
> Subject: [Samba] Re: WINS over subnets
> To: samba at lists.samba.org
> Message-ID: <efpjue$j5g$1 at sea.gmane.org>
> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed
> 
> Edmundo Valle Neto a crit :
> > Hoggins! escreveu:
> > 
> > Yes, in that case it should maintain a more complete list. And yes you 
> > just must have ONE WINS server.
> > I think you didnt got the point, domain master, local master, domain 
> > controllers, wins server, etc are just roles of the same server, 
> > enabling some options in smb.conf the same server can be all of them at 
> > the same time.
> > BUT, other subnets need local master browsers too, they can be any 
> > Windows workstation (normally you should not worry about that), this is 
> > one of the reasons that all of them must use the same single WINS server 
> > (I am not saying that yours are not), the LMB can be any available 
> > workstation (the machines in the subnet should elect one automatically), 
> > so any machine ending up beeing a LMB will use the  same WINS server to 
> > find the DMB and sync. It works that way without you needing to care 
> > about it.
> > 
> > 
> > Ok, if the wireless clients can see each others probably that segment 
> > has an LMB with the browse list of that segment but just isnt passing it 
> > to the samba server.
> > About the LMBs I just said that to make it clear, that the other 
> > networks dont register themselves directly with samba to be included in 
> > the browse.dat file, who does that is the LMB of that segment (as 
> > explained before).
> 
> Thanks, I understand better now how it works.
> So the LMB (any Win machine, elected) of the 192.168.3.0/24 segment must 
> send its browse list to the server, right ? I must check this traffic 
> with ethereal and/or with debug level 2. Sorry I didn't yet.
> 
> > Yes, it is possible and most of the times the recommended way.
> > 
> > 
> > Theres some tools and comands to see problems with name resolution on 
> > the XP clients, like nbtstat or the netbios browsing console.
> > 
> > Putting a log level of 2 in smb.conf, is there any interesting 
> > information about elections in the nmbd log? Whould help if you include 
> > your smb.conf here too.
> 
> Yes, I put debug level to 2, and I saw that the server was always 
> elected as the master. And also that the machines successfully 
> registered to the server.
> My smb.conf (a bit modified since my first post, but the symptoms are 
> the same though) :
> 
> [global]
> 	display charset = ASCII
> 	workgroup = BOUFFARD
> 	netbios aliases = hgsserver
> 	server string = PARTAGES
> 	interfaces = eth0
> 	security = SHARE
> 	map to guest = Bad User
> 	root directory = /
> 	pam password change = Yes
> 	passwd program = /usr/bin/passwd %u
> 	passwd chat debug = Yes
> 	username map = /etc/samba/smbusers
> 	unix password sync = Yes
> #	log level = 2
> #	syslog = 3
> #	syslog only = Yes
> 	log file = /var/log/samba/%m.log
> 	max log size = 50
> 	debug timestamp = No
> 	time server = Yes
> 	server signing = auto
> 	socket options = TCP_NODELAY SO_SNDBUF=8192 SO_RCVBUF=8192
> 	printcap name = /etc/printcap
> 	os level = 32
> 	lm announce = Yes
> 	preferred master = Yes
> 	domain master = Yes
> 	local master = no
> 	dns proxy = No
> 	wins support = Yes
> 	ldap ssl = no
> 	remote announce = 192.168.3.255/BOUFFARD
> 	remote browse sync = 192.168.3.255 224.0.0.1
> 	usershare path =
> 	winbind enum users = Yes
> 	winbind enum groups = Yes
> 	winbind use default domain = Yes
> 	guest ok = Yes
> 	hosts allow = 192.168.2.0/24, 192.168.3.0/24
> 	cups options = raw
> 
> [...] (some shares declarations)
> 
> I'll come with more results on benchmarks ASAP. Thanks for your help and 
> patience.
> 
> Regards,
> 
> 	Hoggins!
> 
> 
> 
> ------------------------------
> 
> Message: 8
> Date: Sun, 01 Oct 2006 23:38:55 -0300
> From: Edmundo Valle Neto <edmundo.valle at terra.com.br>
> Subject: Re: [Samba] Re: WINS over subnets
> To: "Hoggins!" <hoggins at wheres5.com>
> Cc: samba at lists.samba.org
> Message-ID: <45207BBF.4050901 at terra.com.br>
> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed
> 
> ...
> > Yes, I put debug level to 2, and I saw that the server was always 
> > elected as the master. And also that the machines successfully 
> > registered to the server.
> > My smb.conf (a bit modified since my first post, but the symptoms are 
> > the same though) :
> >
> > [global]
> >     display charset = ASCII
> >     workgroup = BOUFFARD
> >     netbios aliases = hgsserver
> >     server string = PARTAGES
> >     interfaces = eth0
> >     security = SHARE
> >     map to guest = Bad User
> >     root directory = /
> >     pam password change = Yes
> >     passwd program = /usr/bin/passwd %u
> >     passwd chat debug = Yes
> >     username map = /etc/samba/smbusers
> >     unix password sync = Yes
> > #    log level = 2
> > #    syslog = 3
> > #    syslog only = Yes
> >     log file = /var/log/samba/%m.log
> >     max log size = 50
> >     debug timestamp = No
> >     time server = Yes
> >     server signing = auto
> >     socket options = TCP_NODELAY SO_SNDBUF=8192 SO_RCVBUF=8192
> >     printcap name = /etc/printcap
> >     os level = 32
> >     lm announce = Yes
> >     preferred master = Yes
> >     domain master = Yes
> >     local master = no
> >     dns proxy = No
> >     wins support = Yes
> >     ldap ssl = no
> >     remote announce = 192.168.3.255/BOUFFARD
> >     remote browse sync = 192.168.3.255 224.0.0.1
> >     usershare path =
> >     winbind enum users = Yes
> >     winbind enum groups = Yes
> >     winbind use default domain = Yes
> >     guest ok = Yes
> >     hosts allow = 192.168.2.0/24, 192.168.3.0/24
> >     cups options = raw
> >
> > [...] (some shares declarations)
> >
> > I'll come with more results on benchmarks ASAP. Thanks for your help 
> > and patience.
> >
> > Regards,
> >
> >     Hoggins!
> >
> 
> Theres some options that I think are not needed in your config, but 
> probably doesnt cause that problem that you have, in exeption of this one:
> 
> local master = no
> 
> Try to set it to yes, I never tried to set it to no and let it be only 
> the DMB to see what happens but the samba docs have something to say 
> about that, "If you want Samba to be a DMB, then it is recommended that 
> you also set preferred master to yes, because Samba will not become a 
> DMB for the whole of your LAN or WAN IF IT IS NOT ALSO A LMB ON ITS OWN 
> BROADCAST ISOLATED SUBNET". Anyway its at least recommended to samba be 
> the LMB too.
> 
> Regards.
> 
> Edmundo Valle Neto
> 
> 
> ------------------------------
> 
> Message: 9
> Date: Sun, 1 Oct 2006 23:58:07 -0400
> From: ShunLei_Pak at emc.com
> Subject: [Samba] Samba AD support with openldap and SASL
> To: <samba at lists.samba.org>
> Message-ID:
> 	<8445C3A587DB7246B316AB952E5BBE5F041D51BD at CORPUSMX50B.corp.emc.com>
> Content-Type: text/plain;	charset="us-ascii"
> 
> Hi,
> 
> I'm trying to build Samba 3.0.23c for 2003 AD membership support.  My
> understanding is that AD membership support requires openldap's client
> libraries only.  Do I need to have SASL, REGEX and Berkeley DB installed
> first before I build the client libraries?   I think I can skip Berkeley
> DB but not sure about SASL and REGEX.
> 
> Since my target device has very limited memory and disk space, I'm
> trying to get rid of unnecessary components.  For openldap, are the
> "liblber" and "libldap_r" libraries sufficient for AD support?
> 
> I've been struggling with openldap.  I'd appreciate if someone could
> post the "configure" options/switches for building openldap.
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> 
> Pak Lei
> 
> 
> ------------------------------
> 
> Message: 10
> Date: Mon, 2 Oct 2006 12:26:30 +0530
> From: "Indunil Jayasooriya" <indunil75 at gmail.com>
> Subject: [Samba] How to copy a file from linux to window pc
> To: samba at lists.samba.org
> Message-ID:
> 	<7ed6b0aa0610012356o2bd5b159l16af150163567de6 at mail.gmail.com>
> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed
> 
> Hi,
> 
> I have file at /opt/mailbackup/mailbackup.tar.gz (this is a Linux Machine)
> 
> I want to put this file to a windows pc.
> 
> What is the command to do it.
> 
> can I use something like the following.
> 
> mount -t smbfs
> 
> Then How to use this ?
> 
> -- 
> Thank you
> Indunil Jayasooriya
> 
> 
> ------------------------------
> 
> Message: 11
> Date: Mon, 2 Oct 2006 09:04:26 +0200
> From: odi <odix at odiisi.net>
> Subject: Re: [Samba] How to copy a file from linux to window pc
> To: samba at lists.samba.org
> Message-ID: <200610020904.26375.odix at odiisi.net>
> Content-Type: text/plain;  charset="iso-8859-1"
> 
> The simliest way is to do this with smbclient, which is like a simple ftp 
> client, type smbclient --help for command line options.
> 
> regards odi
> Am Montag, 2. Oktober 2006 08:56 schrieb Indunil Jayasooriya:
> > Hi,
> >
> > I have file at /opt/mailbackup/mailbackup.tar.gz (this is a Linux Machine)
> >
> > I want to put this file to a windows pc.
> >
> > What is the command to do it.
> >
> > can I use something like the following.
> >
> > mount -t smbfs
> >
> > Then How to use this ?
> >
> > --
> > Thank you
> > Indunil Jayasooriya
> 
> 
> ------------------------------
> 
> Message: 12
> Date: Mon, 02 Oct 2006 09:30:43 +0200
> From: Peter Daum <gator_ml at yahoo.de>
> Subject: [Samba] Horrible write performance from XP to Samba
> To: samba at lists.samba.org
> Message-ID: <efqf74$g7b$1 at sea.gmane.org>
> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1
> 
> I noted an extremely poor performance when copying big files from
> a windows xp client to a samba share. The exact version of samba
> does not seem to matter: I tried several different samba servers
> with versions between 3.014 and 3.0.23b running on Linux 2.4.32
> and 2.6.17 (machines and network otherwise idle, clients connected
> via fast ethernet, servers via Gbit; network performance in both
> directions around 95 Mbit/s). I made several tests copying a 1GB
> file with Windows 98 and Windows XP clients. Reading the file from
> the server takes predictably around 105 seconds (~9.75 MB/s).
> 
> Writing to the server takes only slightly longer on Win98 (130
> seconds, ~8 MB/s) while the same takes approximately 45 minutes
> from a XP client (I don't know whether this matters, I noted that
> on the XP write test, the directory listing on the server
> immediately shows a file with the final size - obviously a sparse
> file, repeatedly invoking du shows the gradually increasing actual
> size).
> 
> I wrote a little test program that just writes data to a file and
> shows the throughput; the transfer rates I get that way are pretty
> reasonable, so it is not a general problem but something that only
> occurs on specific operations like copying.
> 
> Tracing the network traffic also didn't tell me what the problem
> might be: XP uses for copying as well as for other write
> operations WriteAndXRequest, the only peculiarity I noticed is the
> slightly exotic block size of 61440 bytes per request when copying
> (which also doesn't seem to be the problem - Win98 uses the same
> block size with WriteRaw)
> 
> Has anybody else made similar experiences? (Since I could see this
> issue with differently configured servers/clients, it should not
> be just my personal problem. Of course in most settings where the
> data usually goes mostly from the server to the client it is not
> obvious)
> 
> Any ideas what's going on and what to do about it?
> 
> 
> 
> ------------------------------
> 
> Message: 13
> Date: Mon, 02 Oct 2006 11:43:12 +0200
> From: "Hoggins!" <hoggins at wheres5.com>
> Subject: [Samba] Re: WINS over subnets
> To: samba at lists.samba.org
> Message-ID: <efqmvb$6vf$1 at sea.gmane.org>
> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed
> 
> Edmundo Valle Neto a crit :
> > ...
> > 
> > Theres some options that I think are not needed in your config, but 
> > probably doesnt cause that problem that you have, in exeption of this one:
> > 
> > local master = no
> > 
> > Try to set it to yes, I never tried to set it to no and let it be only 
> > the DMB to see what happens but the samba docs have something to say 
> > about that, "If you want Samba to be a DMB, then it is recommended that 
> > you also set preferred master to yes, because Samba will not become a 
> > DMB for the whole of your LAN or WAN IF IT IS NOT ALSO A LMB ON ITS OWN 
> > BROADCAST ISOLATED SUBNET". Anyway its at least recommended to samba be 
> > the LMB too.
> 
> Well, this option was previously set to yes, and it did not work either. 
> Changing this, I thought it would make difficult the election of a LMB 
> on other nets, but you say it won't, so I put it back, and maybe the 
> other things I changed will cause it to work at last !
> 
> Do you have any other ideas about this config ?
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> 	Hoggins!
> 
> 
> 
> ------------------------------
> 
> Message: 14
> Date: Mon, 02 Oct 2006 11:53:13 +0200
> From: Robert Gehr <robert.gehr at baumann-gmbh.de>
> Subject: [Samba] fully qualified usernames ??
> To: samba at lists.samba.org
> Message-ID: <4520E189.8000009 at baumann-gmbh.de>
> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-15; format=flowed
> 
> Hi there
> 
> Just a couple of questions to help me understand.
> 
> When I upgrade from 3.0.22 to 3.0.23c the access restrictions on my
> shares on the member server no longer work. I read in the Changes file
> 
> "Since Samba 3.0.8, it has been recommended that all domain accounts
> listed in smb.conf on a member server be fully qualified with the...."
> 
> So far so good I know what I have to do still I don't quite understand
> why the member server is no longer able to identify the user connecting.
> 
> When, on the member server, I do a "wbinfo -U ID" I get the correct SID
> When I do "wbinfo -a joe%passwd" it succeeds as well as a
> "wbinfo -a DOMAIN\\joe%passwd"
> 
> So winbindd identifies joe all right even without the DOMAIN prefix. Why
> does this no longer work for shares on the member server that have
> 
> valid users = joe
> 
> defined??
> 
> The member server gets its local users and groups via ldap.
> 
> I also have in my smb.conf:
> winbind trusted domains only = Yes
> 
> 
> What am I missing??
> 
> Thanks
> 
> 
> -- 
> Best Regards
> Robert Gehr
> 
> 
> "Technological progress has merely provided us
>   with more efficient means for going backwards"
> 
> ~ Aldous Huxley
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> ------------------------------
> 
> Message: 15
> Date: Mon, 2 Oct 2006 12:57:16 +0300
> From: "Marian Neagul" <marian at info.uvt.ro>
> Subject: [Samba] Auth Problem
> To: <samba at lists.samba.org>
> Message-ID: <000301c6e609$2444a350$a50a0a0a at wmat>
> Content-Type: text/plain;	charset="US-ASCII"
> 
> Hello,
> 
>  
> 
> I have a problem related to user authentication: Users can not login from
> Windows workstations.
> 
> I get the following error:
> 
> "The system could not log you in. Make sure your User Name and domain are
> correct then type your password again."
> 
>  
> 
> Users can access shares, they are prompted for a user and password and it is
> ok. The same user and password does not work for login.
> 
> What could be the problem? I've posted the logs and smb.conf  at
> http://www.info.uvt.ro/~neagul/samba/
> 
> I want to mention that the server is a production server and was hit by a
> hardware failure. :-( I restored everything but it doesn't work.
> 
>  
> 
> 
> 
> Thank you!
> 
>  
> 
> Marian Neagul
> 
> 
> 
> ------------------------------
> 
> Message: 16
> Date: Mon, 02 Oct 2006 06:56:36 -0400
> From: Gerard Seibert <gerard at seibercom.net>
> Subject: [Samba] Re: How to copy a file from linux to window pc
> To: samba at lists.samba.org
> Message-ID: <20061002064738.5D4A.GERARD at seibercom.net>
> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8"
> 
> "Indunil Jayasooriya" <indunil75 at gmail.com>
> 
> > Hi,
> > 
> > I have file at /opt/mailbackup/mailbackup.tar.gz (this is a Linux Machine)
> > 
> > I want to put this file to a windows pc.
> > 
> > What is the command to do it.
> > 
> > can I use something like the following.
> > 
> > mount -t smbfs
> > 
> > Then How to use this ?
> 
> I use this method on my FreeBSD 6.1 system.
> 
> 
> 1) Create a directory: '/c'
> 
> 2) Create an alias:
> 
>      alias c:='mount /c'
> 
> 3) Place this in my /etc/fstab file:
> 
>      //user-name at bios-name/directory    /c   smbfs     rw,noauto 0    0
> 
> Obviously you will need to make sure that the drive or directory you
> want to access are configured correctly on the Windows machine.
> 
> Now all I have to do is type: c: at the command line and the Win share
> is mounted. I can then do a simple cp <file> <Win-file>.
> 
> Ciao!
> 



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