Dealing with NT Server

[yonderme]

Anyone know how I can get Linux boxes (Red Hat 7.1) to see files on an NT Server?

[chikn]

SAMBA

Read some NHF's

[mangeli]

Originally posted by yonderme:
<STRONG>Anyone know how I can get Linux boxes (Red Hat 7.1) to see files on an NT Server?</STRONG>

If you're drives are formated in NTFS you can't. (At least I'm fairly sure you can't. Some one back me up...)

[chikn]

Originally posted by mangeli:
<STRONG>If you're drives are formated in NTFS you can't. (At least I'm fairly sure you can't. Some one back me up...)</STRONG>

That would be only in a dual booting senario (although it is now possible but dont care to try it as I would have to load windows), not file sharing.

[yonderme]

I looked at some NHFs (maybe the wrong ones, I'll try some more), I've read up on SAMBA but I can't see how to use it this way.

Some Background - I'm trying to move the school network I administer away from just NT server with 9x clients to a mixed Linux/Windows network to give teachers choice of OS in the classroom. I can see how to use SAMBA to let windows see LINUX servers but not the other way round.

Thanks for the posts so far.

[nfallon]

There is a commercial application with a free trail download that will do what you want. It is DiskShare by Intergraph. The URL is:
http://www.ssc-corp.com/nfs/ds-br.asp


Neil

[chikn]

Originally posted by nfallon:
<STRONG>There is a commercial application with a free trail download that will do what you want. It is DiskShare by Intergraph. The URL is:
http://www.ssc-corp.com/nfs/ds-br.asp


Neil</STRONG>

Diskshare works well for NFS sharing. I use it on a couple servers so that my SCO servers can update SQL tables on an NT server and vice versa. Diskshare however costs money.

You can do want you want by using Samba. Get a program like Gnomba (form Gnome) or LinNeighborhood and you can browse your windows network. Or if you prefer the CLI use the smbmount command.

[nfallon]

Originally posted by chikn:
<STRONG>Diskshare works well for NFS sharing. I use it on a couple servers so that my SCO servers can update SQL tables on an NT server and vice versa. Diskshare however costs money.

You can do want you want by using Samba. Get a program like Gnomba (form Gnome) or LinNeighborhood and you can browse your windows network. Or if you prefer the CLI use the smbmount command.</STRONG>

I just tried out Gnomba and have found some limitations. Gnomba cannot see the D drive if there is one on the system. It only sees the C drive on a Windows based system.

Not very practical.

Neil

[nfallon]

I was wrong. Gnomba does see the D drive but shares the entire drive instead of just the folder that I have shared.

Neil