smbmount on Solaris

[Puneet Sood]

Hi,

I want to have transparent access to a Windows NT filesystem from a Solaris
2.6 machine. The aim is that a program could use the normal file I/O calls
to access files on the Windows system. I was thinking of using smbmount but
looking at the samba documentation, it appears that smbmount is available
only on Linux. Is that really the case?

If smbmount is not available on Solaris, is there some other product which
will allow me to get access to the Windows NT filesystem? One way is to put
PC NFS on the Windows NT server but I am not allowed to do that.

Upgrading the Solaris machine to Solaris 7 or maybe even 8 is an option if
that can provide a solution.

Thanks in advance,
Puneet

[David Collier-Brown]

Puneet Sood wrote:
> If smbmount is not available on Solaris, is there some other product which
> will allow me to get access to the Windows NT filesystem?

Sure: use smbsh/smbwrappers. These are a programs and
a set of libraries to provide a virtual "/smb" directory
tree on solaris.

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[Roland Mainz]

David Collier-Brown wrote:

> Puneet Sood wrote:
> > If smbmount is not available on Solaris, is there some other product which
> > will allow me to get access to the Windows NT filesystem?
>
> Sure: use smbsh/smbwrappers. These are a programs and
> a set of libraries to provide a virtual "/smb" directory
> tree on solaris.

Use this with care and only for non-production systems.
Using smbwrappers may result in a fatal kernel panic (Solaris 2.7 106541-07)
;-((

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[Neil Hoggarth]

In article <88c295$b53$1...@nrchh45.us.nortel.com>,
Puneet Sood <ps...@aptis.com> wrote:

> If smbmount is not available on Solaris, is there some other product which
> will allow me to get access to the Windows NT filesystem?

Sharity, from Objective Development: http://www.obdev.at/

HTH.

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