Mounting from multiple OS's

[mmaloney10]

Hi, I am looking for a solution to mapping drives to a Windows system.

I am putting together a test infrastructure and looking for a way that doesnt cost money to mount Linux & Solaris to a Windows file system.

I found that Samba works on Linux to map to Windows but it is not supported on Solaris (as a client).

Does anyone know of a free tool that can mount from Solaris/Linux/Windows to a Windows fs?

 

[spamly]

I've used samba on Solaris for years.

It comes with newer versions of solaris /usr/sfw

and is available at sunfreeware

http://www.sunfreeware.com

 

[mmaloney10]

http://www.samba.org/samba/docs/man/smbmount.8.html

It says only for Linux on the samba site.

 

[Chacalinc]

hmm.. note that mmaloney10 stated that he needs the client, not the server. Can you use the solaris as the repository?

ftp://ftp.sunfreeware.com/pub/freeware/sparc/9/samba-3.0.10-sol9-sparc-local.gz

# samba-3.0.10-sol9-sparc-local.gz The Samba software suite is a collection of programs that implements the SMB protocol for unix systems, allowing you to serve files and printers to Windows, NT, OS/2 and DOS clients - installs in /usr/local/samba. To use samba, you must also have installed the popt, libiconv, readline, ncurses and either the libgcc-3.3 or the gcc-3.3.2 packages. Documentation for installation and configuration can be found in the /usr/local/samba/doc/samba subdirectories. The man files are in /usr/local/samba/man. This package was compiled with ./configure --with-acl-support with no extra options beyond the defaults. Note: The following issue has been reported by samba users - The sample start/stop script in /usr/local/samba/doc/samba/examples/svr4-startup/samba.server thinks samba lives in /opt/samba rather than /usr/local/samba. This is *probably* an issue that the samba team should take care of, i.e. the sample script could be modified at build time to know where the build was done (or targeted for).

Chacal, Inc.

 

[spamly]

I swear I'm not making this up.

http://www.sun.com/bigadmin/jsp/descFile.jsp?url=descAll/using_samba_online

http://www.sun.com/bigadmin/jsp/descFile.jsp?url=descAll/installing_and_conf_

http://www.kempston.net/solaris/samba.html

Software available:

http://www.sun.com/download/products.xml?id=3e3af224

Solaris 2.5.1

http://www.sunfreeware.com/solaris_2.5_list.html#samba

Solaris 2.6

http://www.sunfreeware.com/programlist.html#samba

Solaris 7

http://www.sunfreeware.com/programlistsparc7.html#samba

Solaris 8

http://www.sunfreeware.com/programlistsparc7.html#samba

Solaris 9

http://www.sunfreeware.com/programlistsparc9.html#samba

Solaris 10

http://www.sunfreeware.com/programlistsparc10.html#samba

 

[Annihilannic]

I believe mmaloney10 is partially correct there; unless something has changed recently smbmount is not available for Solaris, however the rest of the SAMBA client suite is available as usual (smbclient, etc.).

Checking the most recent packages on SunFreeware it still seems to be the case.

Annihilannic.