Samba

[Jeff Goeke-Smith]

Ok, as I did the Samba presentation with Paul.  I'll jump in here and answer
this one.

The short answer is you can't do it.

Here is the reason:  To perform a mount of a remote file system, the kernel
must know how to interact with that file system.  As it stands right now,
AFAIK the only kernel to support the smb file system is the linux kernel.
Therefore,  you won't be able to mount your windows machine from the IRIX
machine.  Sorry.

The second, and less important, thing is that a standard mount command won't
successfully mount a samba partition even under linux.  You have to use the
smbmount command to get it to work.

Hope this is of some help.

--Jeff Goeke-Smith

> -----Original Message-----
> From: linux-user-admin@egr.msu.edu
> [mailto:linux-user-admin@egr.msu.edu]On Behalf Of Matt Fuerst
> Sent: Tuesday, May 02, 2000 9:41 PM
> To: linux-user@egr.msu.edu
> Subject: Samba
>
>
> I recently picked up a SGI Indy, but this is a fairly Unix
> generic question.
> I used the pretty nifty Irix installer to grab Samba from
> http://freeware.sgi.com and install it. All is well (expect for the really
> weird directory structure that Irix uses... samba installed in /usr/samba?
> Is that standard? Pretty much everything else you download from the above
> web site gets stuffed into a generic place /usr/freeware ..
>
> Anyways, back to the question at hand...
>
> I am none too familar with Samba, but it is running well enough.
> My goal is
> to mount my Windows drive as a directory on my Irix box (the Indy has a 1
> Gig drive, my win box has 6 gigs..) I can use the SMB utility smbclient to
> connect to my Irix box... IE:
>
> smbclient file://neptune/c
> and then my password lets me do the smbclient thing, which is an ftp like
> interface to access my Win box. Not good enough for me I say.. I want
> transparent, nfs like mount.
>
> I read the man and it says to do something along the lines of
>
> mount -t smb neptune:/c /home/fuerstma/neptune
>
> but I get an error that smb is not a recognized file system. So I guess
> (after a long winded explination one might fairly state) my
> question is, how
> to I insert smb to me a recognizable file system? I hope that does involve
> manipulating the kernel. If anyone out there is familar with Irix and is
> looking for a new best friend with lots of questions, please let
> me know...
>
> Thank you very much for any help!
>
> Matt
>
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