nico de haer wrote: > > Juan, > > Share the drive under windows, and use samba (the smbmount part) to mount it > somewhere on your Linux system. One warning: un-mount the share *before* you > turn off your windows box or before it *crashes* Linux doesn't like mounts > to go without saying bye.
In defense of smbfs, I must say that many Windows machines with smbmounted shares have been taken down or crashed here, without a smbumount on the Linux side, and have not had a deleterious effect on the Linux server. You're just going to get a bunch of I/O errors when you try to access the files. For that reason (I use smbfs to do backups of the Win machines), I always *unmount* the shares in my backup scripts, then remount them. I'm running Samba 2.0.7. You're results may vary...
