Networking Without DAVE

Turnip

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I'm running OSX 10.1.3, and was previously using the DAVE evaluation for setting up a network drive of my Win2000 machine. This was working just fine (I was manually connecting via the smb://xxx.xx.xx.xxx option in the server box), until my DAVE evaluation expired.

Now, my DAVE installation is useless, and I'm not overly interested in paying $160 for a registered version. However, I can't connect to my other machine graphically (through Finder, Go, Connect To Server..) without DAVE.

I was hoping that I could manually mount it as a samba drive in terminal, however, I can't seem to find smbmount (or its variants) in the UNIX install.

What are my options? I do this, for free, with my Linux machine daily, and was hoping to do the same with OSX...

...PS - what's the best way to remove DAVE?
 
To remove DAVE, I'd suggest using the DAVE installer program and performing an "uninstall." That way, you're sure to remove frameworks, extensions, kernel whatchamacallits, preference panes, etc...

I was wondering the same thing, and under OS 9, I can usually poke around with Extensions Manager and de-activate the extensions I want, then throw the folder away from the Applications folder -- with OS X now, there's so many places an installer can put files that I always make sure there's an uninstaller included with the package. Otherwise, I'm stuck doing Sherlock Finds for "dave" or something like that and being unsure about the files I'm trashing...

Are you a student? Check out Sharity at http://www.obdev.at/products/sharity/ You can get a free license for it, and I'm pretty sure there's a GUI way to connect to Windows shares with it. I think you can get a personal license for it too for free, but I'm not sure...
 
Originally posted by Turnip

I was hoping that I could manually mount it as a samba drive in terminal, however, I can't seem to find smbmount (or its variants) in the UNIX install.

mount_smbfs

from the man page:

MOUNT_SMBFS(8) System Manager's Manual MOUNT_SMBFS(8)

NAME
mount_smbfs - mounts a shared resource from an SMB file server

SYNOPSIS
mount_smbfs [-E cs1:cs2] [-I host] [-L locale] [-M crights:srights] [-N]
[-O cowner:cgroup/sowner:sgroup] [-R retrycount] [-T timeout]
[-W workgroup] [-c case] [-d mode] [-f mode] [-g gid] [-n
opt] [-u uid] //user@server/share node

DESCRIPTION
The mount_smbfs command mounts a share from a remote server using
SMB/CIFS protocol.

The options are:

-E cs1:cs2
Specifies local (cs1) and server's (cs2) character sets.

-I host
Do not use NetBIOS name resolver and connect directly to host,
which can be either a valid DNS name or an IP address.
-L locale
Use locale for lower/upper case conversion routines. Set the lo-
cale for case conversion. By default mount_smbfs tries to use an
environment variable LC_* to determine it.

-M crights:srights
Assign access rights to the newly created connection. See
nsmb(8) for theory.

-N Do not ask for a password. At run time, mount_smbfs reads the
~/.nsmbrc file for additional configuration parameters and a
password. If no password is found the mount_smbfs prompts for
it.

-O cowner:cgroup/sowner:sgroup
Assign owner/group attributes to the newly created connection.
See nsmb(8) for theory.

-R retrycount
How many retries should be done before the SMB requester decides
to drop the connection.

-T timeout
Timeout in seconds for each request.

-W workgroup
This option specifies the workgroup to be used in the authentica-
tion request.

-c case
Set a case option which affects name representation. case can be
one of the following:

Value Meaning

l All existing file names converted to lower case. Newly
created file gets a lower case.

u All existing file names converted to upper case. Newly
created file gets an upper case unde.

-f mode, -d mode
Specify permissions that should be assigned to files and directo-
ries. The values must be specified as octal numbers. Default
value for the file mode is taken from mount point, default value
for the dir mode adds execute permission where the file mode
gives read permission.
Note that these permissions can differ from the rights granted by
SMB server.

-u uid, -g gid
User id and group id assigned to files. The default is owner and
group id from directory where the volume is mounted.

//user@server/share
The mount_smbfs command will use server as the NetBIOS name of
remote computer, user as the remote user name and share as the
resource name on a remote server.

node Path to mount point.

FILES
~/.nsmbrc Keeps static parameters for connections and other informa-
tion. See ./examples/dot.nsmbrc for details.

EXAMPLES
The following examples illustrate how to connect to a SMB server SAMBA as
user GUEST and mount shares PUBLIC and TMP:

mount_smbfs -I samba.mydomain.com //guest@samba/public /smb/public
mount_smbfs -I 192.168.20.3 -E koi8-r:cp866 //guest@samba/tmp /smb/tm
p

It is possible to use fstab(5) for smbfs mounts:

//guest@samba/public /smb/public smbfs rw,noauto 0 0

BUGS
Please report bugs to the author.

AUTHORS
Boris Popov <bp@butya.kz>, <bp@freebsd.org>

FreeBSD Mar 10, 2000 2
 
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