Questions from a Total samba Novice.

2008-05-09 Thread Martin McCormick
I just found out that I will need to copy some files from a FreeBSD system to a Windows shared drive on our network so that Windows users can have access to the files. After reading a little documentation and talking to a cowworker, I was under the impression that this would allow

Re: Questions from a Total samba Novice.

2008-05-09 Thread Ivan Voras
Martin McCormick wrote: I just found out that I will need to copy some files from a FreeBSD system to a Windows shared drive on our network so that Windows users can have access to the files. After reading a little documentation and talking to a cowworker, I was under the

Re: Questions from a Total samba Novice.

2008-05-09 Thread Dimitri Yioulos
On Friday 09 May 2008 9:49 am, Ivan Voras wrote: Martin McCormick wrote: I just found out that I will need to copy some files from a FreeBSD system to a Windows shared drive on our network so that Windows users can have access to the files. After reading a little documentation

Re: Questions from a Total samba Novice.

2008-05-09 Thread Wojciech Puchar
smbclient(1) The smbclient program implements a simple ftp-like client. This is useful for accessing SMB shares on other compatible servers (such as Windows NT), and can also be used to allow a UNIX box to print to a printer attached to any SMB

Re: Questions from a Total samba Novice.

2008-05-09 Thread Stephen Allen
(forgot to send to list the first time) Hi Martin, You don't need samba if all you want to do is copy files from FreeBSD to a Windows system. The easiest way to do it is to mount an existing Windows share, on FreeBSD. This will give you access to the Windows share, but nothing is shared

Re: Questions from a Total samba Novice.

2008-05-09 Thread Warren Block
On Fri, 9 May 2008, Martin McCormick wrote: I just found out that I will need to copy some files from a FreeBSD system to a Windows shared drive on our network so that Windows users can have access to the files. Some alternatives have been mentioned, but you might also consider

Re: Questions from a Total samba Novice.

2008-05-09 Thread Gerard
On Fri, 9 May 2008 16:40:01 +0200 (CEST) Wojciech Puchar [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: smbclient connects to any SMB server (be it Windows or unix or whatever) and perform fetch, upload and other operations from command line. it's good to: testing your samba setup (if you need)

Re: Questions from a Total samba Novice.

2008-05-09 Thread Martin McCormick
Warren Block writes: Some alternatives have been mentioned, but you might also consider mount_smbfs(8). I hope I managed to thank each of you who responded as I feel like I know where I need to go next thanks to all the great suggestions. I would have had to enabled nfs client

Re: Questions from a Total samba Novice.

2008-05-09 Thread Stephen Allen
Hi Martin, I would have had to enabled nfs client if using mount_smbfs, correct? Nopes - stick to using the mount command. Depending on the filesystem you specify (with the -t option), it will call the relevant mount command itself (eg. mount_smbfs, mount_nfs). When I