[NTLUG:Discuss] Getting Linux and NT to play nice.

[joseph beasley]

Create an autoexec.nt in the root of the NT box.  Add the 'net use'
commands there to map the drive when the system starts.

--- Stephen Klein <jaguar at imagin.net> wrote:
> I finally got a chance to set up a Linux server at work to act as a
> translator for WinNT and SCO Unix.  Basically, I have an NFS share
> exported that the SCO box will save data to, then that same directory
> will be shared via SAMBA to a WinNT 4 server running a special
> utility
> to move data to a more permanent location.
> 
> This is supposed to solve a problem of the SCO box having trouble
> staying connected to the NFS share on the NT server during the
> nightly
> backups.  Apparently, the NFS software that we are using (not MS's NT
> services for Unix or whatever) is not a very high priority process,
> and
> it cannot keep up with the connection from the SCO box during a
> backup.
> 
> I have the SAMBA stuff talking to the Windows side, mostly.  It's
> enough
> to work, but it's probably not as well put together as it could be. 
> I
> have yet to get the NFS stuff connected, but I have enough (recent)
> experience with it to get it working.
> 
> My question is, does anyone know of a way to get WinNT 4 to connect
> to a
> SAMBA share automatically from a reboot without someone logging in
> first.
> 
> It's a piece of cake in Linux, but NT I'm not so sure.  The utility
> that
> runs on the NT server basically watches a directory and then copies
> and
> renames the data that the SCO server dumps out to prevent the data
> from
> being overwritten the next time data is saved.  The data output of
> the
> software that runs on the SCO box was apparently poorly written.  I'm
> working from the assumption that the utility will not work with a UNC
> such as \\server_name\share_hame and will actually require a drive
> mapping on the server.  I haven't had a chance to study this
> utility's
> operation in detail yet, so I have to make an assumption that it
> expects
> a drive mapping to work.
> 
> I want to avoid a problem that if the server locks up for some reason
> (and it has happened) at night, everything will come back up after a
> reboot without someone having to log in and restore the drive
> mapping.
> 
> Any ideas...
> 
> Thanks,
> Stephen
> 
> 
> ps.  Sorry for rambling or being slightly OT...I've been up all
> day...all night...time for sleep.
> 
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