How to Mapp a Unix box as a drive letter on Windows 2000 client ? 1

[Rosti]

Hi everybody!
I have a Windows 2000 client and SCO Unix server. What is the best way to map a Unix Box as a drive letter on Windows 2000 PC? (I herd that Win2000 have native protocol for this purpose).

Thanks in advance.
Rostik
Chicago

 

[pbxman]

Yes - you need the Windows 2000 Services for Unix add-on, and the syntax is different from NT4.

In NT 4.0 - if you have a C:\Test dir shared with NFS - you'd have to map it as \\computername\c\Test

In Windows 2000 - all you'd have to do is directly map the share ie..\\computername\Test
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[rostik]

thanks.
Where I can find this Unix add-on pack?
%-)

 

[pbxman]

You can find it here:

http://www.microsoft.com/windows2000/sfu/

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[rostik]

Thanks a lot!

 

[Tels]

Hey, is it the same procedure for Linux?

I've looked at Samba but I'm a newbie to dear Linux and I havn't a clue....... for pint$ = 1 to 20
for pint$ = pint$ + 1
if pint$ = 20 goto HOME
next pint$

 

[pbxman]

Yes, it is the same for Linux.

There is something to note, however..you may receive an error:

svc: unknown version (3).
Linux currently supports NFS version 2.0, but SFU attemps to connect using NFS version 3.0.
You can disable NFS version 3.0 support in SFU by using Regedt32 to navigate to:
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Client for NFS\CurrentVersion\Default

..On the Edit menu, Add Value name DisableV3 as a REG_DWORD data type. Set the data value to 1.

That will take care of any issues that arise from using Linux.

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