mounting a share in windows that isnt samba...help?

usingloser

I want to be able to mount my home directory (for example) on a windows box. I dont want to use samba. What is the easiest way to do this? I really dislike windows but it would be nice to have this option.

sisyphus · Posted: Sat Jun 28, 2003 8:25 pm Post subject:

Install an NFS server on the Windows box. There are a few paid for jobs out there (e.g. MS Services for Unix - SFS) and I seem to remember than Cygwin can do it though I'd need to check that out.

Otherwise, you could use SFTP along with Cygwin though that's not really a mount.

Finally, perhaps there are Intermezzo\Coda type network FS servers available for Windows. I've never investigated but it's possible.

Out of interest, why do you want to avoid SMB?

<EDIT 2 Minutes later - Google Rules>http://www.oneparticularharbor.net/cygwin/ </EDIT>

<ANOTHER EDIT>http://opensource.franz.com/nfs/nfs-dist/readme.txt</EDIT>
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usingloser · Posted: Sat Jun 28, 2003 8:30 pm Post subject:

well, never liked it that much, always had problems with it

is it possilbe to mount a samaba share from anywhere and make it invisible to anyone that doesnt know to look for it (sort of like how automount works)

Crg · Guru Joined: 29 May 2002 Posts: 345 Location: London

Crg · Guru Joined: 29 May 2002 Posts: 345 Location: London

usingloser · Posted: Sat Jun 28, 2003 8:32 pm Post subject:

and i was hoping for some time of key authenication instead of password

and what port does samba operate on if i had to push it through my router

Crg · Guru Joined: 29 May 2002 Posts: 345 Location: London

usingloser · Posted: Sat Jun 28, 2003 8:42 pm Post subject:

that is so bloated imo. I would have like to open an obscure port on my router that forwards to the share on my machine,

sisyphus · Posted: Sat Jun 28, 2003 8:50 pm Post subject:

Whoops. Sorry. I misunderstood your post and thought that you wanted to mount the Windows box from your Linux box.

There are plenty of NFS clients for Windows also - some free, just google for it.

As an aside, you can "hide" CIFS shares by appending a "$" to the end of the share name. This is however, weak as a solution as anyone who knows what they're doing can still enumerate the shares.

If you're accessing the share from the other side of a FW then the best solution is an SSH tunnel for the relevant ports (seem to remember that you only need 139 but I'm almost cetainly wrong

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Crg · Guru Joined: 29 May 2002 Posts: 345 Location: London

sisyphus · Posted: Sat Jun 28, 2003 9:04 pm Post subject:

I'm 100% with crg on this.

Windows 2000 and XP are especially chatty. Quite apart from the fact that CIFS pads out packets like there's nothing else to do they natter like bastards.

You'll find them asking for updates every few minutes to make sure that they've still got a connection to drives (so that they can show you those lovely little x's that signify loss of connection).

In addition to that, if you've got an explorer window open then the sods poll for changes to the directory structure.

VERY much a LAN protocol.

That being said, I have tunnelled CIFS conns. over SSH (poor man's VPN) but I CANNOT remember how I did it

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usingloser · Posted: Sat Jun 28, 2003 9:06 pm Post subject:

that is exaclty what i want, how do i setup an ssh tunnel (i need the o'rielly ssh book)

Crg · Guru Joined: 29 May 2002 Posts: 345 Location: London

usingloser · Posted: Sat Jun 28, 2003 9:17 pm Post subject:

i still want to use the drive like a regular windows drive (or share) though, is that possible with putty

sisyphus · Posted: Sat Jun 28, 2003 9:25 pm Post subject:

Well, based on crg's handy little aide memoire there, you should be able to just tunnel 139 provided that you know the IP address of the server on which the share resides (you only need the other two for NetBIOS name resolution and browsing (the RPC port is for managing shares, users and the like).

Set up the tunnel in putty (i.e. to [realserverip]:[port]) and then map a drive to 127.0.0.1/[sharename].

I did it so that I could play MP3s at a friends house without having to do anything too nasty to my firewall.
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usingloser · Posted: Sat Jun 28, 2003 9:27 pm Post subject:

thanks, i dont have a windows box to test it on right now, but thanks a lot