Re: OT: Connecting to win server from linux!

>>>> 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).

>> 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.

> I was able to access on win2K machine but wasn't successful on XP
> computer. Is it something different on WinXP computer ??? And how do I
> pass usernames with a space in between? Like if a username is "x y" how
> do I give that in the samba mount command? And will this work on win2K
> server too? 'cos I didn't check this on a win2K server, which is where
> I've to use finally?

Does the XP box have file sharing enabled? is it XP Home or Pro? Also check if
the systems firewall is turned on (or any firewall installed) that would block
the connection. To use a username with a space on the commandline (at least
with the bash shell) you can escape the space character with \

as in

smbmount -u test\ user -p password .... (I don't know if that is the command
syntax, but just shows the \ in use).
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