Kevin Brown 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).
>>>
>
>>> 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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I've tried with both XP Home and Pro. Firewall is turned off. I couldn't
access the default shares nor list the available shares as I can on a
win2K computer. Is there any else that I should take care of in case of
XP? Anyone tried to access default shares on a win2K server machine
without explicitly sharing those drives?
sanjay.
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