On Thu, Apr 8, 2010 at 1:41 PM, Patel, Pinakin <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I am trying to determine if I can use Samba for a specific requirement.
>
> To my understanding (and based on what I have read about Samba so far), Samba 
> is used to map a Unix directory on a Windows client; thus enabling the 
> Windows users to navigate through Unix content.
> We want to use it the other way around; we have a batch process that runs on 
> a Unix server that generates some reports. We need to move these reports to a 
> Windows directory server using the same unix batch script. We were hoping 
> that we could possibly use something like Samba to be able to map the Windows 
> directory on the Unix server (to make it look like a Unix share). Is this at 
> all possible?
>
> Our fallback is to use something like ftp/sftp but the Windows Directory 
> server has a lengthy process to get any software added to it; and currently 
> it does not have any ftp clients running on it.
>

You want to use the cifs filesystem that is built into the kernel and
the mount.cifs command.

John
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