Chris Rae enscribed thusly:
> Hi - I'm hoping that this is another one of my basic questions but you never
> know!
> I have a Linux machine (RH5.1) and a Win95 machine at home. And a slight
> problem. My Win95 machine has about 2Gb free space and my Linux machine
> (ahem) has somewhere in the region of 2Mb (really!). Thank god the swap
> space is seperate otherwise it'd probably die the minute I switched it on.
> Anyway, I digress. Using the SMB setup which came with RedHat, I can
> read/write to my Linux machine's disk using my Win95 machine but as far as I
> can see the only way to do this the other way round is to use the
> "smbclient" program. Is this true? What I'd like to do is mount a subdir of
> my home dir as a share on my Win95 machine but smbclient isn't much use for
> this.
> Is it possible? Am I being daft?
You can use either smbsh (aka smbwrappers) which gives you a
library preload that intercepts system calls and redirects things off
of a /smb path to the smbnetwork and hence to your Windows boxes. Or
you can use smbfs with smbmount. You have to have smbfs in your kernel
and the matching correct version of smbmount. If you are using smbfs with
any of the 2.0 kernels, you have to use and older smbmount that is no longer
supported. If you are using smbfs with any of the kernels > 2.1.70 then
you need the smbmount program from the latest samba packages.
> Answers appreciated,
> Chris
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