Mapping shares

[goyle]

I am running Samba on my Linux Mandrake box and was wondering if the share can be mapped by a windows machine so software can be installed to it?

[FoBoT]

yes



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[goyle]

That easy eh? Just I have a laptop with small drive so I figured if I could do it then I'd have all kinds of room..
Thanks for the quick replies.

[FoBoT]

the winders side is easy, just map like you would to another winders pc, that is the easy part

the hard part is correctly setting up the directories/permissions on the linux box and setting up samba to "share" the directory out correctly

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[Coral Sea]

You might find SWAT useful in setting up the share on your Linux box. The confusion occurred for me when I named the share on the Linux box and then incorrectly referred to it (i.e., a syntax error) on the Windoze side. For example, if you name your share "Apps" and the path you're referring to is /apps, make sure you don't refer to the share as /Apps or /apps in Windoze, i.e., don't put that "/" in the share name when calling it from Windoze, call it literally, e.g., \\linuxbox\Apps. Confusing? You'll get what I mean after you try it.

Assuming you get past the above, then mapping the share in Windows Explorer is, as already stated, a piece of cake. Yup, it's that easy. http://www.linuxnewbie.org/ubb/wink.gif

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[Coral Sea]

Forgot to mention, watch out for the encrypted passwords issue. Lots of posts in this discussion group describing the two solutions:

1. Hack the Windoze registry.

2. Specify encrypted passwords in the smb.conf file.

I use option 2 -- it's more elegant. http://www.linuxnewbie.org/ubb/biggrin.gif

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[FoBoT]

Originally posted by Coral Sea:
Forgot to mention, watch out for the encrypted passwords issue.
I use option 2 -- it's more elegant. http://www.linuxnewbie.org/ubb/biggrin.gif



excellent point
after fighting samba myself and reading many post here about it, the encrypted passwords is often the last hurdle that people can't figure out

[goyle]

Thanx for all the replies, things should work out well.

[johnwebb]

There are a couple .inf files on the windows cd that allow you to turn encrypted passwords on and off in windows(no need to hack the registry). I beleive they are in the tools directory and named something like pton.inf and ptoff.inf

Also be aware that Samba needs to be configured with support encrypted passwords to use them.

[Ryeker]

Heh, I just put the security to share, that way passwords are ignored. There isn't any security problems on my home LAN.