Sanjay Darisi wrote:
>
> May be an OT here, I believe there are windows server gurus too here. Is
> it possible to access all the partitions and dirs on a win2k/XP or
> server computer from Linux, not thru samba though. With samba, I know we
> can access all the network shares on the win machines. Is there a way to
> connect to windows machine by admin username/passwd and access all the
> drives not just the network shares. Its in a Local area network i'm
> talking abt. Like without having our client component running on windows
> machines, Is it possible? I know of few client components sitting on
> windows computers and let you connect I guess. But that beats the
> purpose. Or is it an impossible and dumb question that I have?? Any
> ideas/suggestions? I guess with samba we can't do rite? Only if they r
> shared we can access rite?
Requires Samba, but you connect to the remote systems default shares that ALL
copies of Windows have enabled by default for remote backing up. I can get my
entire drives contents by going to:
\\machine_name\C$
\\machine_name\D$
etc... (where C or D is the actual drive letter you want to access).
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