Uh, no he's not.

'smbmount //tsd/c /net/windows'

allows me on my linux box to access a share off of a machine I have called
tsd. Samba is designed to work both ways. It's a messy protocol, but the 
samba people did a good job implementing it.

Just don't expect to get good speed out of it .. it's 100 times worse than 
nfs.

Aaron

On %M 0, Donald Greer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>   Uh, I think your thinking "smbfs", not samba.  Samba is for sharing SMB
> file systems, smbfs is for mounting them (remotely).
>   Don
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jon Mayfield (jmX) <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Date: Wednesday, July 08, 1998 6:32 PM
> Subject: Re: wnt.cc...
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> 
> >I'm not sure if this will help you out any, but uou could always try using
> >SMB shares, you could then smbmount the NT share as a local directory....If
> >you do a search for "samba" you'll find info on it...
> >
> [...]
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