topic Unix File Sharing from Windows Storage Server 2003 R2 in Operating System - Linux

Unix File Sharing from Windows Storage Server 2003 R2

Christine Ng — Fri, 21 Jul 2006 12:02:28 GMT

I have a system running Windows Storage Server 2003 R2.
I want to share a folder on this server with several Unix systems [AIX, Solaris etc.] on the network.
I'd appreciate some help getting this setup. I have configured a folder on the Windows machine to share with a UNIX server. But I have not successfully mounted this shared drive on a UNIX system.
Thanks,
Christine

Re: Unix File Sharing from Windows Storage Server 2003 R2

Andrew Cowan — Sat, 22 Jul 2006 04:36:53 GMT

Christine,

You need to install and configure Samba on your Unix machines. Its very easy to setup and has a web configuration tool known as SWAT.

See http://us4.samba.org/samba/ for details.

Re: Unix File Sharing from Windows Storage Server 2003 R2

Alexander Chuzhoy — Sat, 22 Jul 2006 11:37:47 GMT

the actual mount syntax is depended upon your UNIX distribution,however from Redhat linux this is the syntax:

smbmount //servername/sharename /localmountpoint -o username=domainname/username

Hit enter and you'll be prompted for password.
If you don't use domain then omit the domainname/ from the command.

Re: Unix File Sharing from Windows Storage Server 2003 R2

g33k — Mon, 24 Jul 2006 07:44:13 GMT

see man mount (smbmount)

I hope that man is clear enought

Re: Unix File Sharing from Windows Storage Server 2003 R2

Alan_152 — Mon, 24 Jul 2006 09:42:20 GMT

You can do this using either Samba, or the NFS client/server package on the Unix Tools for Win2k03 CD (also downloadable, I think).