Windows DFS file locking replication Im in a small company that has offices on the east and west coasts of America and also various people working from their homes. There are Windows Servers already in the offices. I think that Microsoft Windows DFS will do what I want, but despite reading the web site, Im really not sure, so Im hoping that someone can confirm if it will do all the following For various personnel political reasons I know that a proposal for a Microsoft Windows system has more chance of being accepted than any nix system Creation of a Folder so that any files in this folder will automatically be available on the servers in all the offices. When anyone opens up one of these shared files on any of servers, the copies on all the servers will automatically be locked. And when they close the file, the updates automatically get copied to the file on all the servers. VPN access to these folders for people working outside the offices. Bandwidth at the main offices varies from 6 Mbs to 2. Mbs. Files are Excel Word Auto. CAD ranging in size from 1. KB to 4. MB. Thank you. Accessing an SMB Share With Linux Machines. Next. Previous. Contents. Linux UNIX machines can also browse and mount SMB shares. Note that this can be done whether the server is a Windows machine or a Samba server An SMB client program for UNIX machines is included with the Samba distribution. It provides an ftp like interface on the command line. You can use this utility to transfer files between a Windows server and a Linux client. Most Linux distributions also now include the useful smbfs package, which allows one to mount and umount SMB shares. More on smbfs below. Im trying to connect to an NFS folder on my dev server. The owner of the folder on the dev server is darren and group darren. When I export and mount it to my Mac. How to Access a Shared Folder Locally with NFS Prerequisites click links for howto guideYou have set up a shared folder Necessary Tools One Thecus NAS. Introduction. Samba is usually the solution of choice when you want to share disk space between Linux and Windows machines. The Network File System protocol NFS is. To see which shares are available on a given host, run. L host. where host is the name of the machine that you wish to view. Unless the SMB server has no security configured, it will ask you for a password. Get it the password for the guest account or for your personal account on that machine. L zimmerman. The output of this command should look something like this. Server time is Sat Aug 1. HOt6.png' alt='Accessing Nfs Server From Windows' title='Accessing Nfs Server From Windows' />Timezone is UTC1. DomainWORKGROUP OSWindows NT 3. ServerNT LAN Manager 3. ServerZIMMERMAN User WorkgroupWORKGROUP Domain. Sharename Type Comment. ADMIN Disk Remote Admin. Disk Public. C Disk Default share. Access_Shared_Folders_within_LAN_NFS_50/image12.png' alt='Accessing Nfs Server From Windows' title='Accessing Nfs Server From Windows' />IPC IPC Remote IPC. OReilly Printer OReilly. Disk Printer Drivers. This machine has a browse list. Server Comment. HOPPER Samba 1. KERNIGAN Samba 1. LOVELACE Samba 1. RITCHIE Samba 1. ZIMMERMAN. The browse list shows other SMB servers with resources to share on the network. To use the client, run. For example, if you are trying to reach a directory that has been shared as public on a machine called zimmerman, the service would be called zimmermanpublic. However, due to shell restrictions, you will need to escape the backslashes, so you end up with something like this. You will get the smbclient prompt. Server time is Sat Aug 1. Timezone is UTC1. DomainWORKGROUP OSWindows NT 3. Accessing Nfs Server From Windows' title='Accessing Nfs Server From Windows' />ServerNT LAN Manager 3. Putney Virgin Active Opening Times there. Type h to get help using smbclient. If you can use ftp, you shouldnt need the man pages for smbclient. Although you can use smbclient for testing, you will soon tire of it for real work. For that you will probably want to use the smbfs package. Smbfs comes with two simple utilties, smbmount and smbumount. They work just like mount and umount for SMB shares. One important thing to note You must have smbfs support compiled into your kernel to use these utilities The following shows a typical use of smbmount to mount an SMB share called customers from a machine called samba. U rtg. 2t c mount customers u 5. Added interface ip1. Got a positive name query response from 1. Server time is Tue Oct 5 1. Timezone is UTC 4. DomainIPM OSUnix ServerSamba 2. Issuing a mount command will now show the share mounted, just as if it were an NFS export. SAMBA1CUSTOMERS on customers type smbfs 0. Please see the manual pages for smbmount and smbumount for details on the above operation. Next. Previous. Contents.