Hello David,
Wednesday, February 9, 2005, 7:06:25 PM, you wrote:
On Wed, 9 Feb 2005 06:50:19 -0600, akonstam@xxxxxxxxxxx <akonstam@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
I recently received a clarification from out Windows people that the share is really //trinity-tigers/users so technically smbmount is doing what it is advertised to do but Windows 2000 and XP allow you to mount one level below the share. I am getting the feeling that smbmount will not.
Aaron,
I'm sorry to differ from what your "Windows people" tell you, but I have never seen any method for creating a mount that is a level below where the mount point is.
For example, I have a Windows machine called "HOST" and I have created a share called "DATA". Below data, I create another sub-directory (NOT another share) called "FILES". From a remote window machine, I can map a network drive (or what we are calling mounting) to \\HOST\DATA but I can NOT mount to \\HOST\DATA\FILES
It just can't be done. You can only mount to the point of the share, not the point of directories below the share.
Which version of Windows do you use? I'll tell you one really scary thing: you can actually map the network drive to whatever level within the share you are pleased. That's how at least W2K and WXP work (don't really remember how it was in earlier versions). It will be like this even if you get connected to a Samba server. I would totally agree with the rest of your message. But the "Windows people" are right, it CAN be done. Regards, Maxim.
Using w9x versions, I could only map the listed shares and only mount the directories at the \\server\share level. This would be given a drive letter for DOS legacy programs. After assigning the drive a letter, I would have to point the program at X:\subdir1\subdir2\ to get it to work.
For non legacy programs, I never even map a drive. \\server\share\user\myhome\ would work without any problems diving to this directory. From a windows machine to a windows lan, the password seems to be dependent upon the server login and the shares on down the line expect the same user/password for anything on the server.
Using samba from a linux box to a LAN required me to enter a password for every subdirectory that I tried to access in smb:///server - (enter username/password) - share - (enter username/password). This was with nautilus. Konquerer only required the password for the server, then you could dive down through the shares to the directory desired.
Jim
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