[plug] accessing a NT folder

Bernd Felsche bernie at innovative.iinet.net.au
Mon Jun 16 19:45:18 WST 2003


On Mon, Jun 16, 2003 at 07:33:50PM +0800, James Devenish wrote:
> In message <000001c333f9$eca2a060$1413060a at minimine>
> on Mon, Jun 16, 2003 at 07:24:58PM +0800, John Usher wrote:
> > A few options off the top of my head:
> 
> You are right...there are many options. But the well-worn ones are
> hardly obsure -- wasn't his problem trivial? I mean, he'd be doing it
> every time he visited a web site served by Linux using a browser running
> under Windows. If I understood it correctly, Jon's problem was that he
> had some files on a Linux machine and wanted to get them over to an NT
> machine via a script. The NT machine didn't have wget and the Linux
> machine couldn't run Samba, so he didn't know what to do. The
> common-place solutions would be to run an SSH daemon or an HTTP daemon
> or an FTP daemon or an SMB daemon or and NFS daemon or a...as you said,
> there are many options...and have the corresponding command-line client
> on the NT machine.

Running an smb client to push the files onto NT doesn't require
"running Samba". Just a private smb.conf that declares the domain,
access method and PDC, if applicable.

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