browse windows server shared files through linux

[Tanya556]

Hello,

Does anyone know how a Linux or UNIX based system can browse a windows domain and use its resources. I have a Win2K Advance server with Window services for UNIX installed. I would like to figure out, from the unix client end, how can you mount a shared folder from a Windows Domain?

 

[Hemo]

I think Samba will let you do this. Yes, I am quite certain it will. smbmount takes care of it.

If the windows shared folder is named 'shared_docs' on the server named 'my_server', and you require user authentication with password,you might use this on the *nix end to mount the windows share to /mnt/winfolder:

mount -t smbfs -o username=frank,password=foobar //my_server/shared_docs /mnt/winfolder

Another method is to run an NFS server on the windows box and mount those NFS shares on the linux box.

 

[Annihilannic]

Or simply smbclient, which is rather like an FTP client.

Annihilannic.

 

[clonny2]

You can browse the share list of any server including the PDC by using smbclient. It will also show you the other servers it sees.
You might have to give a user and password if there is security.

smbclient -L NAME_OF_WINDOWS_SERVER -U USER_TO_CONNECT_AS

smbclient -L pdc -U Administrator

You can also try using something like LinNeighborhood or another graphical viewer. I think KDE has one, but not sure.

>---------------------------------------Lawrence Feldman
SR. QA. Engineer SNAP Appliance
lfeldman@snapappliance.com

 

[stanhubble]

I may me wrong....(cuz i haven't actually played with it) but would the "windows services for unix" provide nfs exports that a *nix machine could mount. Samba will definitely allow windows shares to be mounted/accessed on the linix system, but not all *nix's will mount an SMB filesystem.

 

[Tanya556]

Thank you everyone for your helpful tips. I found this software called ProNFS on the web and it made it very simple to set up. It allows me to mount shared folders on both Windows and linux real easy. I downloaded a free demo, liked it and baught the full version for only $40 bucks.