Re: Map Windows from Unix

Martijn Lievaart wrote:
On Mon, 15 Jan 2007 21:46:43 -0600, Andrew DeFaria wrote:
Tuhin wrote:
Since I am new in the Perl world, my idea is, sitting on the Unix server if I can open the Windows Explorer (or any file selection dialog box that will display the directory structure of the PC), then I will be able to copy the data from the CD using my Perl script.
How about setting up Samba such that you can mount shares from the PC to the Unix server. Then share the CD on the PC and mount it to the Unix system. Then just point your Perl script to the "mounted from the PC" CD.
Mister DeFarias advice is about as good as his posting style. What you might do instead is install a CIFS (aka SMB) capable kernel and mount the CDROM directly from the PC to the Unixbox.
It's pretty funny that you don't recognize that that's pretty much the same thing!

CIFS/SMB: http://www.microsoft.com/mind/1196/cifs.asp:

CIFS is an enhanced version of Microsoft's open, cross-platform
Server Message Block (SMB) protocol, the native file-sharing
protocol in the Windows 95, Windows NT®, and OS/2 operating systems
and the standard way that millions of PC users share files across
corporate intranets. CIFS is also widely available on Unix, VMS, and
other platforms.

Samba: http://us4.samba.org/samba/

Samba is an Open Source <http://www.opensource.org/>/Free Software
<http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/free-sw.html> suite that has, since
1992 <http://us4.samba.org/samba/docs/10years.html>, provided file
and print services to all manner of SMB/CIFS clients, including the
numerous versions of Microsoft Windows operating systems.

Basically they both implement SMB protocol.

Damn it's great to know that these ASCII only experts are so well informed!

If you want to bone up on the subject: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Server_message_block
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Andrew DeFaria <http://defaria.com>
All I want in life is a warm bed, and unlimited power.

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