Thank you, Matt. This worked first try (running RH 7.1) and I am restoring
to that file spcae now. Thanks a bunch!!
Glenn
On Tuesday 18 September 2001 04:08 pm, you wrote:
> I believe what you are asking is whether you can mount a remote NT share on
> a Linux machine.
>
> smbfs must be loaded as a module or compiled in the kernel; if so...
> as root:
> # mount -t smbfs -o username=your_nt_username //nt_server_name/share_name
> /mnt
>
> Enter your NT password at the prompt. You can also use smbmount. Check out
> the manpage for syntax.
>
> Matt
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Glenn Meyer [mailto:me@glennmeyer.com]
> Sent: Tuesday, September 18, 2001 3:12 PM
> To: slug@nks.net
> Subject: [SLUG] How can I mount an NTFS share?
>
>
> I have a mixture of NT and Linux machines. I store most of the important
> data for all of my machines using Samba on one of the Linux machines
> because
>
> it has the tape drive and cd-r for backups. Unfortunately, I have filled
> up
>
> that server's drive space.
>
> Now I need to restore a rather large file from tape and I don't have space
> on
> the linux server. However, I do have a bunch of space on the NT boxes.
>
> QUESTION: Is is possible to mount an NTFS file share from and NT machine on
> a
> Linux server so that I can do the restore? I know I can use the Samba
> client
> to access the space, but that wouldn't work with the restore. Any
> suggestions (other than the obvious - get a bigger drive) would be
> appreciated! Thanks!
>
> Glenn.
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