Networking with 2000...

Forum: Networking
Topic: Networking with 2000...
started by: jjump

Posted by jjump on April 13 2004,13:26

Right, here goes... At the moment I have got a laptop and a desktop both running windows 2000. The desktop is set up as a server and I don't really want to change the operating system. The laptop runs programs like IRC and downloads straight onto the server. I want to change the laptop to linux (DSL) but need to know if it is possible to keep it downloading straight to the windows network share? Any help or problems with this would be great...

jjump

Posted by Modrak on April 22 2004,18:51

Grab samba utils (because DSL has only bit of them)
then you just have samba mounted in DSL

Posted by jjump on April 22 2004,19:56

Thanks for the reply... So, DSL can write to NTFS over SAMBA?

Thanks

jjump

Posted by cbagger01 on April 22 2004,23:44

Yes.

Start up your NTFS-based computer using Microsoft Windows. Then create a network share for the folder or a share for the entire drive.

Then boot your 2nd computer with DSL.

Either use the built-in "ftp-like" utility called smbclient to grab files from the Windows/NTFS system, or install all of the SAMBA system and then you can use smbmount to mount your Windows share in DSL.

For example:

sudo su
mkdir /mnt/winshare
smbmount //WINCOMPNAME/SHARENAME /mnt/winshare -o username=windowsusername,workgroup=domainname

where you replace:

WINCOMPNAME with your Windows computer name (right-click on My Computer or choose "System" from the Control Panel)

SHARENAME with the name that you chose for your network fileshare on your Windows computer.

windowsusername with your Windows computer user name

domainname with your Windows computer's "WORKGROUP" or if you use Windows NT Domain services, it's your computer's "DOMAIN".

Note that all of the slashes in the Linux command line are "forward slashes" like / and are not the typical backslashes or backwards slashes that are more commonly used in Windows or MSDOS.

If you then naviagate over to /mnt/winshare, you should see the files and directories that are contained inside your Windows Network fileshare.

Good Luck.

Posted by jjump on April 23 2004,08:18

Cheers for that cbagger01, exactly what I wanted to here...

jjump