Excuse this blooper, I got it backwards. I read it as getting to a Linux box from a windows machine, not what was actually requested. My apologies. Bryan Zimmer wrote: >I can tell you from my experience that accessing and writing to a Linux box >from a windows machine using Samba really does work, and it works with the >configuration as it is nearly out of the box. I used RedHat 9 and Fedora >Core 2 both successfully in the same way. > >I used user, rather than machine, authentication, so it involved creating >users in /etc/samba/smbusers and passwords in /etc/samba/smbpasswd. The >user id and password I used for the smbusers were the same as my Windows >2000 logon name/password. > >That was the hardest part. Anyone for filling us in on how to create new >smbusers? I did it a couple of times but can't bring it to memory. > >Anyway, the Windows machines that needed to access the Linux box share were >all part of a workgroup and not a domain. In /etc/samba/smb.conf I declared >the Linux box to be part of the same workgroup. You could conceivably use >the SWAT utility to configure samba, but I just went through the >/etc/samba/smb.conf and changed the appropriate lines, and created new >shares at the bottom of the file. If you look in /etc/samba/smb.conf you >will see what I mean. I left most things at standard distribution settings. >Be sure to create a copy of the original config file in case you need to >retrace your steps. > >Once you tweak the config file and create the samba users and passwords, you >should start the daemon: (in RedHat/Fedora) > ># service smb start > >And that should start two daemons, smb and nmb. The nmb is for netbios name >resolution. > >Then you should see the new Linux Samba shares in "Network Neighborhood" in >windows. > >Hope this at least gets you started. > >Bryan Zimmer > > > > > >BRYAN ZIMMER >----- Original Message ----- >From: "Olwe Melwasul" <olwe at cpinternet.com> >To: "TCLUG Mailing List" <tclug-list at mn-linux.org> >Sent: Monday, August 16, 2004 1:05 PM >Subject: Re: [TCLUG] Access to Windows share from Linux > > > > >>I'd like to do the same thing. Actually, I know about the Samba client >>(not the Samba server) meant for "network browsing" and about LISA, the >>daemon behind it. I'm guessing for programming there must be a Samba >>"lib" somewhere on the Linux side that has a Samba client API. >> >>Olwe >> >>Larry Pint wrote: >> >> >> >>>I am a programmer, not a Linux OS expert, so please bear with me. >>> >>>I need to access a shared drive on a Windows 2003 Server from within a >>>program running on a Linux box. I'm unable to figure out how to write >>>to that drive. I suspect it has something to do with either Samba, >>>which we have installed on the Linux machine, or mounting the Windows >>>share on the Linux machine (or both). (Red Hat Linux version >>>2.4.20-8(?) Samba version 2.2.7a) >>> >>>Can someone tell me how to accomplish this? >>> >>>Thanks for any suggestions you can offer me. >>> >>>Larry Pint >>> >>> >>> >>>_______________________________________________ >>>TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota >>>Help beta test TCLUG's potential new home: http://plone.mn-linux.org >>>Got pictures for TCLUG? Beta test http://plone.mn-linux.org/gallery >>>tclug-list at mn-linux.org >>>https://mailman.real-time.com/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list >>> >>> >>> >> >>_______________________________________________ >>TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota >>Help beta test TCLUG's potential new home: http://plone.mn-linux.org >>Got pictures for TCLUG? Beta test http://plone.mn-linux.org/gallery >>tclug-list at mn-linux.org >>https://mailman.real-time.com/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list >> >> >> > > > >_______________________________________________ >TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota >Help beta test TCLUG's potential new home: http://plone.mn-linux.org >Got pictures for TCLUG? Beta test http://plone.mn-linux.org/gallery >tclug-list at mn-linux.org >https://mailman.real-time.com/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list > > _______________________________________________ TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota Help beta test TCLUG's potential new home: http://plone.mn-linux.org Got pictures for TCLUG? Beta test http://plone.mn-linux.org/gallery tclug-list at mn-linux.org https://mailman.real-time.com/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list