[ale] Newbie Samba question

[Gary S. Mackay]

If your smb.conf file is configured with the right workgroup, etc., then you
should see it from your NT box already. As for mounting the NT volume from the
linux box, use the smbmount command. Make sure you are using the latest
version of Samba as there where some changes to the smbmount syntax.

John Mills wrote:
> 
> I have a Linux box (2.2.5/RH6.0) networked with a WinNT box which shares a
> disk partition. I can access that partition from Linux with:
>  'smbclient \\\\<host>\\<partition> <password> -U <me>`
> 
> I looked at '/etc/smb.conf', '/etc/rc.d/init.c/smb', etc. and they look OK,
> at least generally. I read the 'SMB HOWTO', but I don't really see how to
> make the shared NT partition available on my Linux host.
> 
> Should there be an entry in '/etc/fstab'? If so, how should it look? Could I
> then 'mount' the NT partition manually? I don't yet see how to use the
> beast. (I really want to move files ['tar', say] between the two hosts, as
> the NT box is in our automated backup cycle and has some shared files.)
> 
> Comments welcome. (Next problem will be seeing the Linux box from NT, but
> that's lower priority. 7;^)
>   John Mills, Sr. Software Engineer
>   TGA Technologies, Inc.
>   100 Pinnacle Way, Suite 140
>   Norcross, GA 30071-3633
>   e-mail: jmills at tga.com
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