> Hi David, Hi! 8-)
> I assume you know something about Samba. > I want my Linux to see a folder on one of our Windows servers. > Is this easy, is Samba the right way to do this ? Yes, it's fairly easy, and Samba is the right way (in fact, without the MS Unix Toolkit, it's the only way to do it). How depends on what version of Windows you're running, and whether you need to update the files as well as just read them (ie, do you care about user mapping?). As others have mentioned, mount -t smb is the method to get the Windows directory mounted in your environment. You should make sure the Windows servers can support FQDNs (ie, Win2K or later) and are in the DNS, or that you have a WINS server configured somewhere in the environment and both Windows client and server are registering with it (so you can translate the Windows share names to IP addresses for Samba to use). If this is a domain environment, you may need to create a machine account for the Linux system to authenticate to the domain, and thus be able to see the various shared directories (it's not absolutely required, but I'd recommend looking into it so that you don't end up with a lot of unauthenticated accesses). Once that's done, then you treat the Windows share just like any other remote file system, eg you create a mount point and mount the remote directory on it. Example (I use /net/<servername> as the basis for my remote file systems as a habit; no requirement for this name): Su to root and do: mkdir /net/va1pdc/books mkdir /net/va1exch/scratch mkdir /net/va1exch/scratch2 mount -t smb \\va1pdc\books /net/va1pdc/books mount -t smb \\va1exch\scratch /net/va1exch/scratch mount -t smb \\va1exch\scr2 /net/va1exch/scratch2 You get the idea. The Oreilly book on Samba has a couple chapters on this topic, and the book "Running Samba" also has a good explanation of this topic. -- db
