Kyle Burton on Fri, 22 Jan 1999 14:16:06 -0500 (EST)


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Re: sambafs/smbmount questions


Oh, another thing -- in the samba documentation, they mention having to change
a registry setting for some NT boxes -- the following is right out of the
file: NT4_PlainPassword.reg from /usr/doc/samba-1.9.18p10/docs on my 
redhat 5.2 system...

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REGEDIT4

;Contributor:   Tim Small (tim.small@virgin.net)
;Updated:       20 August 1997
;Status:        Current
;
;Subject:       Registry file to enable plain text passwords in NT4-SP3 and late
r

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\Rdr\Parameters]
"EnablePlainTextPassword"=dword:00000001

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you may need to set it to have linux->nt interoperate


forgot about this before...

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On Fri, 22 Jan 1999, Kyle Burton wrote:

> I've used smbclient before, and had it work well.  You need to have
> smb compiled into your kernel (or loaded as a module) first.
> 
> You could use hte ftp like smbclient just to test your connection
> to the box that's providing the share
> 
>   smbclient //host/share_name
> 
> You may need to pass a workgroup/domain name, and user/password information
> depending on how the share is set up.
> 
>   smbmount //host/share_name /mount_point
> 
> should be very similar to netware [ncpmount] or nfs [mount host:/path]
> 
> All the info I've just offered is available from the manpages for
> smbclient and smbmount...
> 
> kyle
> 
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> On Fri, 22 Jan 1999, Tracy Nelson wrote:
> 
> > Hi,
> > 
> > I would like to mount a shared directory from my NT server on my Linux
> > box.  Does anyone know how to do this?  I have tried to mount it using
> > "mount -tsmbfs" but I get the message that that file system type is
> > unsupported by my kernel, and I can't find the source for it.  I have
> > seen references to something called "smbmount", but I can't seem to find
> > any solid info on it (probably I just don't know where to look).
> > 
> > Does anyone else do this?  Or can anyone point me in a good direction to
> > go looking?
> > 
> > Cheers!
> > -- Tracy Nelson (tnelson@fast.net)
> > 
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