accesing a windows share without samba?

progster · Apprentice Joined: 16 Jul 2002 Posts: 271

I haven't found anything on the forums concerning this and all the howto's I
found were telling me to use samba... is it possible without samba?

I don't need to share anything myself so I don't see the use of running the daemon.

~Progster

thegarbageman · Posted: Thu Oct 03, 2002 6:58 pm Post subject:

You can install samba without running the daemon. (don't add it to your runlevels with rc-update).

then you can use smbmount to mount the shares.

Personally, I do run the daemon (so that I can be part of a windows domain), but I don't have any shares.

some_bob · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 23 Jul 2002 Posts: 94

possibly this doesn't directly answer your question, but you can use smbclient instead of the full blown samba to connect to windows shares and copy files to/from. It's more like using ftp, but you don't have to mount any filesystems...

progster · Apprentice Joined: 16 Jul 2002 Posts: 271

waverider202 · Posted: Sat Oct 05, 2002 3:20 pm Post subject: the kernel

The linux kernel has support for mounting smb shares. You don't even need samba installed. Just compile support into your kernel, and "mount //computer/sharename /mnt/point -t smbfs"
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paranouei · Posted: Sat Oct 05, 2002 8:40 pm Post subject:

And with konqueror, just type smb://HOST/SHARE

Olivier · n00b Joined: 13 Jul 2002 Posts: 13

The package gnome-vfs-extras contains the samba protocol plugin (I don't know the real name of Windows's sharing files) for Nautilus.
Just type "smb:" in the adress editbox and you should see the network.

:wink:

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progster · Apprentice Joined: 16 Jul 2002 Posts: 271

ehh does a plugin exists for rox? a google search didn't really give me any usefull results...

~Progster