First of all, let me apologize deeply for the delay in posting the
summary, but I was in transit for some time.
The original post follows, with the solution at the end...
> >
> > This is my posting to the list; so far I have been largely
> > impressed.
> > I am interested inproviding connectivity between our Unix machines
> > (primarily Sun/Solaris) and an NT server. In the past, I had achieved
> > connectivity between Unix (as client) and Novell (as server) using NFS
> > on
> > the Novell side and (auto)mounting the Novell exported "filesystems" to
> > the
> > Unix machine. The purpose of all this was to run some scripts that
> > copied
> > data back and forth.
> >
> > To cut a long story short, in our new NT environment, they have taken
> > away
> > the facility of using an NFS server on NT. Is there any way I can
> > "mount" an
> > NT share as a Unix filesystem, allowing me to do simple 'cp' and
> > 'mv'-type
> > actions?
> >
> > Remember, this data transfer must take place within a script (I thought
> > about smbclient wrapped in Expect, but this would mean a *significant*
> > amount of work).
> >
The overwhelming response was to use Samba, but as I indicated, this
might not be an appropriate solution, as smbclient provides an ftp-like
interface, which is not the best solution for scripting. Some mention
was made of smbsh, but (from my limited testing), this seems to require
some sort of interactive login.
The clear winner to me was Sharity (and Sharity light)
This allows the functionality me to do something similar to a "net
use..." statement, putting this in a startup script for example, thus
providing my users a mount point to the NT server from which they can do
their filesystem operations.
Many thanks to all who took the time to reply and point out different
solutions (*Way* too many to mention), and again, I apologise deeply for
the delay.
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