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"Linux Gazette...<I>making Linux just a little more fun!</I>"
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<H2>Using SAMBA to Mount Windows 95</H2>
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<H4>By Jonathon Stroud,
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<a href="mailto:jgstroud@eos.ncsu.edu">jgstroud@eos.ncsu.edu</a></H4>
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<P><HR>
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<p>Many major universities are now offering network connections to
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students in their rooms. This is really a wonderful thing for the
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Linux community. Whereas, the majority of student owned computers
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on these networks are still running Windows 95, many students are
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making the switch to Linux. One thing that newcomers to Linux are
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constantly asking is, "Can I access a directory shared by a
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Windows 95 computer in the 'Network Neighborhood', and can I
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share files to Windows 95 users?" The answer, of course, is YES.
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I keep trying to tell them that there is nothing that Linux can
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not do, yet they continue to come to me and ask if they can do
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this in Linux, or if they can do that. I have never once answered
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no.
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<h3>Samba</h3>
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<p>To mount a Windows 95 share, we use a program called Samba. Samba
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is a program that allows Linux to talk to computers running
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Windows for Workgroups, Windows 95, Windows NT, Mac OS, and Novel
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Netware. Samba even allows you to share a printer between
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computers using these different operating systems. Samba comes
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with most distributions of Linux, but if you do not have it
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installed, you can obtain a copy from the Samba home page at
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http://lake.canberra.edu.au/pub/samba/.
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<h3>Mounting Windows 95 Shares</h3>
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<p>The first thing you will probably want to do, is check to see
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what directories are shared on the computer you are trying to
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mount off of. To do this type smbclient -L computername. This
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will list all the directories shared by the machine. To mount the
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directory, we use the command smbmount. Smbmount can be a little
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tricky though. I have created a script, named smb, that allows
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users to mount drives using smbmount, with relative ease.
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<pre> #usage smb computername sharename
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#!/bin/sh
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if [ $UID = 0 ]; then
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if [ ! d /mnt/$1 ]; then
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mkdir /mnt/$1
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fi
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#You may want to add the -u option here also if you need to
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#specify a login id (ie: mounting drives on Windows NT)
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/usr/sbin/smbmount //$1/$2 /mnt/$1 I $1 c etc
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else
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if [ ! d ~/mnt/ ]; then
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mkdir ~/mnt/
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fi
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if [ ! d ~/mnt/$1 ]; then
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mkdir ~/mnt/$1
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fi
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#You may want to add the -u option here also if you need to
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#specify a login id (ie: mounting drives on Windows NT)
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/usr/sbin/smbmount //$1/$2 ~/mnt/$1 I $1 c etcfi</pre>
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<p>To execute this script you simply type smb followed by the name
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of the computer you are mounting off of, and then the directory
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you wish to mount (ex. smb workstation files). If you are root,
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the script creates a directory in /mnt by the same name as the
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computer, and mounts the directory there. For any other user, the
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script makes a directory in the users home directory named mnt.
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In that directory it makes another directory by the same name as
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the computer and mounts the share there.
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<h3>Sharing files with Windows 95</h3>
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<p>Now to share a file. This also is not too difficult. To share a
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directory you need to edit /etc/smb.conf. By default, Samba
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shares users' home directories, but they are only visible (and
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accessible) to the owner. This means that the person accessing
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the share should be logged into Windows 95 with the same loginid,
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as they use to log into your Linux box.
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<p>Let's say you want to let 'bob' access the directory
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'/shares/files', and you do not want anyone else to access it. To
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do this, add these lines to your /etc/smb.conf file.
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<pre> [bobsfiles]
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comment = files for bob
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path = /shares/files
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valid users = bob
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public = no
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writable = yes
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printable = no</pre>
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<ol>
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<li> indicates the name the directory will be shared under.
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<li> is a comment that can be displayed in the Windows 95
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Network Neighborhood.
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<li> lists the directory on your computer that will be shared
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<li> when set to yes allows users to access the directory with
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guest privileges.
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<li> indicates whether or not the user has write permissions to
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the indicated directory
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<li> when set to yes allows users to spool print jobs from that
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directory
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</ol>
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<p>More examples on sharing files can be found in the default
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smb.conf file. For more help on setting up this file, see the
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Samba web page, or type man smb.conf.
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<h3>More cool Samba stuff</h3>
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<p>If a Windows 95 user on your network is running winpopup (an
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instant massaging program), you can send them a winpopup message
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using Samba. To do this just type <pre>smbclient -M computername
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message_text</pre>.
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<center><H5>Copyright © 1997, Jonathon Stroud<BR>
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Published in Issue 19 of the Linux Gazette, July 1997</H5></center>
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