Re: [Samba] Automount from Windows w/o logging in first?

2004-03-27 Thread Malcolm Baldridge
let's stay on the list. No worries. DFS is windows version of nfs exports/mounts I got that far... but... but... looking at the M$ doccos for DFS, I don't see where clients of the DFS servers are setup. Samba 3 supports dfs. I don't think 2.2.x does. Microsoft offers Services for Unix

[Samba] Automount from Windows w/o logging in first?

2004-03-26 Thread Malcolm Baldridge
I am trying to do something which should seem very straightforward, not to mention, not unusual for load-balanced web servers, namely: providing a faceless/login-less mounting of SMB shares from NT4 and Win2K servers. Yes, I accept that I will need to stash a plaintext login key in some script or

Re: [Samba] Automount from Windows w/o logging in first?

2004-03-26 Thread Craig White
On Fri, 2004-03-26 at 14:53, Malcolm Baldridge wrote: I am trying to do something which should seem very straightforward, not to mention, not unusual for load-balanced web servers, namely: providing a faceless/login-less mounting of SMB shares from NT4 and Win2K servers. Yes, I accept that

Re: [Samba] Automount from Windows w/o logging in first?

2004-03-26 Thread Craig White
On Fri, 2004-03-26 at 19:45, Malcolm Baldridge wrote: why not use dfs? I know nothing about it, really. The main file repository must be a unix system because I have automated revision control and backup regimes for that, but not for Windows. Some givens: 1) File servers are not