Kevin Brown wrote:
> 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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Do you mean to say, do smbclient on the machine_name and get list of
default shares and use admin account to access these drives with samba,
though these drives are not shared explicitly? Is it possible?? I will
try to do this during the day time today.
Thank you for the info,
sanjay.
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