[lug] Windows *SHUTTER* Shares (fwd)

[John Karns]

On Thu, 26 Jul 2001, Dhruva B. Reddy said:

> At work, we have an all W2K network (what can I say?  Our IT director
> was the quintessential M$ drone) with Hacktive Directory.  We cannot
> mount each others' shares on our workstations without allowing full
> access to a user (doesn't have to be everyone--just the user who wants
> to mount the share).

I don't remember for sure, but I think I tried that without success.


> I once tried to mount a share on my machine running Samba from a w95
> machine.  I got an error message saying that you have to log onto w95
> in order to mount a drive.  What you say below tells me that w95
> requires that you create a username identical to that on the host
> machine (hey, nobody said w95 was a finished product--at least nobody
> worth mentioning :-)

That's the way I've always done it, at least.


> I would suggest subscribing to the samba mailing list
> http://us6.samba.org/samba/archives.html.  There is a lot of traffic, including
> a lot of spam, but I found them quite helpful.

Yes, a 2 or 3 of years ago I was on the list.  Maybe I should check it out
again for a while....

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John Karns                                        jkarns at csd.net