RE: Mounting NT network drives

["Dave Hylands" <dhylands-at-broadcom.com>]

Hi Kurtis,

Samba can be a bit finicky to get setup, but when it's done properly, it
works like a charm.

You need to be clear about which machine is which.

NT has 3 fences of security that have to be passed before getting access to
a file.

1 - You have to be able to logon to the computer. NT requires that the user
account that logs into the computer has priviledges to access that machine
over the network.

2 - NT has permissions on the share.

3 - NT with NTFS volumes has permissions on the file.

You have to get through all 3 of these layers to access the file.

You didn't mention if the "operator" uses the same login on the Linux box as
you do. If so, each user that wants to use SAMBA needs to setup and activate
their account (with SAMBA). This is because you need to tell SAMBA what the
password is for each user on the NT machine. SAMBA has no way to determine
what this password should be.

-- 
Dave Hylands
Vancouver, BC, Canada
http://www.DaveHylands.com/


> -----Original Message-----
> From: Kurtis Martineau [klmartineau-at-shaw.ca]
> Sent: Wednesday, February 05, 2003 3:45 PM
> To: Multiple recipients of list
> Subject: Mounting NT network drives
> 
> 
> 
> Is SAMBA the way to go in order to save and recall files to 
> an existing
> plant NT network?
> 
> I thought I had this figured out when I added script to my 
> *.run file to
> smbmount the NT server.  It always seemed to work in the 
> evening when I had
> access to the emc controlled machine.  I rebooted many times, 
> saved files
> and recalled files.  But later when the operator opened the 
> mount point
> folder, all he saw was white...no longer mounted.
> 
> Samba is great, but it was pretty complicated and I'm not 
> sure what I'm
> doing...only trying to follow examples.  Could my grief be on 
> the NT server
> side?
> 
> Is there not way to click an icon on the desktop and view the 
> network folder
> the same way we do with the cdrom, or floppy?  All we want to 
> do here have
> access to part programs on the network.
> 
> Or maybe I should see if I can ftp the network folder.  In any case,
> operator friendliness is critical.  The
> 
> Kurtis
> 
> 
> 
>