Mount shared Windows folders on an AIX client using samba

[ElgisRamon]

Hello.
I have some Windows, OS/2, BeOS, Linux shares in my network. These machines share folders and printers using NetBEUI commands and all can use'em. My RS/6000 (with AIX 4.3.3 and Samba 2.2) is visible in that "Network Neigborhood". Now I want my RS can connect to the LaserJet shared by a "peer server" and to a shared folder from another "peer server".

I can see these resources using the [tt]smbclient[/tt] program.

Can I have the equivalent to [tt]mount[/tt] all we have when using the NFS protocol?

TIA
I hope it works...
Unix was made by and for smart people.

 

[d3funct]

Have you tried creating a mountpoint for your samba mount and adding it to /etc/filesystems? I'm thinking something similar to using /etc/fstab to mount smbfs mounts in Linux. The syntax may be different, but it should work. Hope this helps. Buenos Dias B-) d3funct
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The software required `Windows 95 or better', so I installed Linux.

 

[ElgisRamon]

What I'm trying to do is do a samba mount! I don't know how to do that!

TIA

I hope it works...
Unix was made by and for smart people.

 

[dlmoore]

Wow! I had no idea how many people were trying to do this. I just stumbled across tek-tips. Maybe I need to sign up as a real user. Looks like I actually have info people might want.

Anyway, I don't have an easy solution for you on the printer. You could setup lpr/lpd on the server with the printer then create a remote print queue on your AIX box. That will work fine, if your remote server supports lpr/lpd. I don't know of a way to do it over NetBIOS from a UNIX-based box. Anyway, we use ~75 printers in a Winnt/AIX environment. We setup our NT boxes to provide lpd and then send jobs to them with AIX when we need to. It drops it into the spooler in between any other Windows print jobs.

For your AIX box to mount a SMB share, use a product named Sharity. Find it at

http://www.obdev.at

Good luck.