[Trinux-talk] Re: Trinux - with a Samba client??

[Matthew F. <mf...@ci...>]

> I have adapted a generic Data Disk it to load up a NTFS module (ntfs.o)
> to the machines root drive.  At root, typing in insmod ntfs.o, gives me
> access to the NTFS drive of the machine I am working on.  (I am a
> desktop/server support technician)  This helps a great deal in dealing
> with BSODs, and saving files on crashed drives.  Not only do I have
> Read/Write capability to a NTFS drive, but I also have a network
> connection.
> (Any chance of getting that module installed by default in the next
> release?)

I usually try to reserve at list 50k on the boot floppy for kernel modules
(esp for filesystems).  There's close to 70k in the current boot disk I'm
working on if you delete the ext2.  I just uploaded boot071pre2.flp to
http://trinux.sourceforge.net/beta/.  Since you probably don't need ext2,
you can delete it and add the ntfs module that is available in fsmods.tgz


> 
> What I am trying to do now is using the network to copy userfiles off of
> one drive to a shared network drive.  The problem is that I only work in
> a Win 9*/NT environment. (Banyan too, but we are converting them to Win
> 2000 servers)  
> 
> I am able to use SAMBA (smbmount) on my Linux machine at home to
> accomplish this, but can not repeat this with Trinux.  I have tried to
> load a couple different versions of SAMBA client with Trinux, but can
> not get it to function properly. (This is without loading the other data
> disks because lack of RAM allocated space)
> 
> Do you know of a way to get a stripped down copy of the SAMBA client to
> work or another way to mount a network drive to a Windows machine using
> Trinux?   I have asked around, but nobody seems to have an answer.  

I just added two Samba 2.07 packages made from the Slackware 7.1 binaries.

smbmount -- contains the smbmnt and smbmount binaries as well as the
smbf.o module that should be automatically installed (if for some reason
it doesn't, it is located in /lib/modules so you can insmod it) I have not
actually tried mounting any SMB share and I'm not positive that the mount
included in busybox will work with smbfs, but give it a try and let me
know

smbclnt -- I added the smbclient binaries and some of the codepages it
complained about.  I haven't tested this either.

Both packages are available at http://trinux.sourceforge.net/pkg/.  Any of
the pre-release versions of the 0.71 boot disk will attempt to network
load packages from this URL.

-mdf