Samba

[Paul Melson]

On Tue, May 02, 2000 at 09:40:33PM -0400, Matt Fuerst wrote:
> 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 ..

	I dunno about IRIX/SGI packages, but the default
	Samba install directory from the samba.org tar
	ball is /usr/lib/samba and has been for as long
	as I can remember.


> 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

	Sorry.  The bad news is that you're stuck with
	smbclient.  I found this out the hard way with
	Solaris a year or so ago.  Maybe the thing to
	do is to ditch SMB shares altogether and use
	NFS?  There are several freeware/shareware
	NFS servers for Win32.  That would at least get
	you the result you want, even if it doesn't
	get you all of the bragging rights. :)


PaulM

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