On Fri, 25 Feb 2000, Nick wrote:
> Hi
>
> Does anybody know if it is possible to use Linux workstations with NT file
> servers? I know that you can do this the other way round (ie have Linux
> file servers with Windows NT or 95/8 servers). However, we are committed
> to NT file servers so need to keep them, since we are predominatly NT
> users. However, to support our Linux/UNIX this would be very handy. For
> example, could one have a system disk on the Linux workstation, containing
> Linux, software, temp space etc and have, say, the /home/user directory
> mounted on a NT server (equivalent of the Network drive on a PC). Also,
> how would the Linux users information, preferences etc. be held - or would
> a separate, possibly low spec. Linux computer be required to serve this
> information?
>
> Any ideas?
>
> Nick
>
>
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Please, someone correct me if I'm wrong. I believe you should be able to
use Samba for that too. In other words, you can use the smbclient command
to mount shares from WinNT servers into your Linux workstations. I
believe there is also a QT based front-end that makes it even easier to
mount those shares (check freshmeat.net for "samba" and see what you get).
Regarding the idea of mounting /home/username from the WinNT server, I've
never seen it before but I suppose it should also work. It certainly
works via NFS.
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