: I've found several articles explaining how to connect to a Unix server
: from NT (using Samba). I have a unique opportunity where I need to
: connect a Unix (SCO) system to an NT share. Is this possible? I need
: to use a very large Unidata database, but don't have enough Unix disk
: space. I do have plenty of NT space, however.
Go ahead and try Samba, it will do the job for you.
Running Samba on a Unix server makes it appear as an SMB server,
thus any Windows 9x/NT box can map a drive to whatever you have exported
on the Unix box, i.e. map drive X: on Windows to /home/public on Unix.
According to your description, what you want is to mount an NT share on
a Unix box. AFAIK, you can only do this using the smbfs filesystem provided
by Linux, i.e. you have a share in \\NT\SOMEFILES and you use "smbmount"
(utility that comes with smbfs on Linux) to moun \\NT\SOMEFILES in, say,
/home/ntfiles.
Check out http://samba.anu.edu.au/samba for more information.
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