Unix File Sharing from Windows Storage Server 2003 R2

[Christine Ng]

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

[Andrew Cowan]

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.

[Alexander Chuzhoy]

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.

[g33k]

see man mount (smbmount)

I hope that man is clear enought

[Alan_152]

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