Re: General Guidance - "Drive Mapping"

Ray Olszewski
2003-07-01T21:28:52Z

At 02:49 PM 7/1/2003 -0600, Linovitz, Scott wrote:
>I'm looking for general guidance on the following and any help is much
>appreciated.
>
>My Situation
>-------------------
>I have two PC's. PC #1 is running WinXP Pro and PC #2 is running RedHat 9.
>
>Goal
>-------
>I have a "shared" folder on PC #1 that I would like to "map" (mount) on PC
>#2.
>
>Question
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>Which linux service(s) and/or application(s) handle this type of file
>sharing? Is it the Samba service and if so is this the only method to "map"
>(mount) a drive on PC#2 from PC#1?

On the Linux side, the two common ways to mount remote drives are with
Samba and with NFS. Linux also supports old-style Macintosh sharing via
netatalk. Your limitation is more likely to be on the Windows side than the
Linux side.

Usually, Windows supports only SMB (Samba, that is), but I imagine (though
I don't know ... this is a Linux list, not a Windows list) there *might* be
add-in NFS servers available for Windows. You can do SMB in userspace with
smbclient (clumsy, comparatively speaking) or in kernelspace if you compile
your kernel to support smbfs filesystems (smooth).