[TriLUG] Reverse Samba?

[J.C. Jones]

MG and all,

Windows XP home doesn't want to play fair when trying to use samba on a 
Linux Box as a fileserver. I have no problem with windows xp 
professional seeing the fileserver, but xp-home sometimes works -- most 
of the time it doesn't.

It is my understanding that Microsoft crippled networking in win-xp home 
so that for business purposes, you had to purchase xp-pro to get 
something close to reliable networking.

jcj

MG wrote:

> Well, now,  I"m confused again.  I thought the shares had to be 
> physically on the Linux box.  I set the share I used up on Linux - I 
> named a directory in a particular partition on Linux, entered that 
> name in samba.conf. and pointed to it from Windows using the Map 
> Network Drive option of the Tools menu in the Windows Folder menus.  
> Windows could see the Samba share from there, so I could move stuff 
> back and forth on those shares.  I couldn't get Linux to see the 
> Windows drives at all, even with file sharing on, either through Samba 
> or on the network, although the Windows machine itself shows up.
>
> I've not done file sharing on Windows before, so the problem may just 
> be my own ignorance of how Windows operates.  But then that would make 
> it outside the focus of this group, which I understand is about a 
> -rational- operating system.
>
>
> MG
>
>
> Lee Fickenscher wrote:
>
>> I'm a bit confused and maybe its because I misunderstood the problem, 
>> but why not just smbmnt the windows shares? This would mount the 
>> shares in the linux filesystem thus allowing you to use tar or 
>> whatever else on them while still using the actual drive space of the 
>> windows machine.
>>
>> -Lee
>>
>> On Mar 21, 2007, at 9:49 PM, MG wrote:
>>
>>>   Kevin Flanagan wrote:
>>>
>>>> Another approach would be to get Services for Unix, a FREE, as in 
>>>> beer not
>>>> speech, set of gnu like utilities for the Windows world.  NFS client,
>>>> server, and much more.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>
>>> NFS was starting to occur to me.  I used it at work in a Solaris/Win 
>>> 3.1 environment, sometime back in the stone age - it was very 
>>> convenient (well, except for that control/m thing).
>>>
>>>
>>> Jeremy Portzer wrote:
>>>
>>>> If you want both free beer and free speech, try using Cygwin 
>>>> instead of Services for Unix.  I haven't personally used cygwin as 
>>>> an NFS server, but the NFS client works fine, and I know the NFS 
>>>> server is available. It would be worth a try - yes, there is an OSS 
>>>> world on Windows, even if it's smaller.
>>>>
>>>
>>> Cygwin looks like the way to go for backing up the whole drive.  
>>> Now  I know that NFS is part of it, too, I'll have to schedule 
>>> another fun afternoon exploring the whole package sometime in the 
>>> future.  Thanks!
>>>
>>>
>>> This Samba stuff's really neat, though - it's working fine for now 
>>> for the 2 g. or so directories I'm backing up.
>>>
>>>
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