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Hi,
Well, the obvious answer would be to install samba but if the M$ network is only netbeui (without TCP/IP at all) then you might have some problems.
Samba provides interoperability with M$ networks that use the smb/cifs file server protocol. This is the ancient 'lan manager' system that was then used in NT / OS2 etc with netbeui. However netbeui is not a routable protocol so for a few years the most widely used 'windows' protocol is NBT (netbeui over TCP). Samba uses NBT essentially because there is no real netbeui protocol implementation for linux.
So, if the M$ network machines have TCP/IP installed (with or without netbeui) then you can defintely just install the samba rpms and all will be well. However, if the M$ boxes have only netbeui then I'm not certain how (or if) it would work. Netbeui name resolution (without TCP / Wins , etc) involves broadcasts which need to be propogated across the network. There are mapping files like 'lmhosts' but that is netbiosname to IP address. So, the question is would samba find a windows box that was only running netbeui ?
The simplest way to solve this if it is a problem is to add TCP/IP to the windows boxes. Anyway, the latest Mandrake samba rpms are here -->
Just download somewhere, change to download directory, then install as root with :
rpm -Uvh samba*.rpm
If you don't want to act as a server then you can leave out the first one listed. Once its installed you can do stuff like :
smbclient -L //winbox1
(equivalent to 'net view \\winbox1' )
You can then mount a windows share as part of the linux filesystem in the same way as you mount a CD, etc. For example :
mount -t smbfs -o username=winuser1,password=sucker //ntserver1/test /mnt/test
Hope this helps
Well, the obvious answer would be to install samba but if the M$ network is only netbeui (without TCP/IP at all) then you might have some problems.
Samba provides interoperability with M$ networks that use the smb/cifs file server protocol. This is the ancient 'lan manager' system that was then used in NT / OS2 etc with netbeui. However netbeui is not a routable protocol so for a few years the most widely used 'windows' protocol is NBT (netbeui over TCP). Samba uses NBT essentially because there is no real netbeui protocol implementation for linux.
So, if the M$ network machines have TCP/IP installed (with or without netbeui) then you can defintely just install the samba rpms and all will be well. However, if the M$ boxes have only netbeui then I'm not certain how (or if) it would work. Netbeui name resolution (without TCP / Wins , etc) involves broadcasts which need to be propogated across the network. There are mapping files like 'lmhosts' but that is netbiosname to IP address. So, the question is would samba find a windows box that was only running netbeui ?
The simplest way to solve this if it is a problem is to add TCP/IP to the windows boxes. Anyway, the latest Mandrake samba rpms are here -->
Just download somewhere, change to download directory, then install as root with :
rpm -Uvh samba*.rpm
If you don't want to act as a server then you can leave out the first one listed. Once its installed you can do stuff like :
smbclient -L //winbox1
(equivalent to 'net view \\winbox1' )
You can then mount a windows share as part of the linux filesystem in the same way as you mount a CD, etc. For example :
mount -t smbfs -o username=winuser1,password=sucker //ntserver1/test /mnt/test
Hope this helps
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