Using a windows network drive

teleron has asked for the wisdom of the Perl Monks concerning the following question:

I have worked out a way of crudely using a network drive in my windows controlled network from my linux box using the Expect module to control smbclient. It seems to work fine, but it seems kind of crude. As I understand it samba is for letting a linux file server live in a windows environment, but smbclient is for letting a linux client work in a windows environment. In any case the quickest way I found to get this to work was with Expect.pm. Am I totally missing a brain? Is there a module made for this function?

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Re: Using a windows network drive by Beatnik (Parson) on Jul 28, 2001 at 10:03 UTC
You could check Filesys::SmbFileClientParser, which works just fine for that kinda stuff. Filesys::SmbClient should work ok too, now that a new Samba was released. For the curious, Filesys::SmbClient uses lib calls, Filesys::SmbClientParser uses safer smbclient calls. Greetz Beatnik ... Quidquid perl dictum sit, altum viditur.	[reply]
Re: Using a windows network drive by rchiav (Deacon) on Jul 28, 2001 at 07:13 UTC
Are you referring to mounting a netbios share to the linux filesystem? If so, just use (taken from the smbmount help) `mount -t smbfs -o username=tridge,password=foobar //fjall/test /data/t +est` [download] I'm really not sure where expect.pm has anything to do with you mounting netbios shares. And I'm really not sure what the Perl part is..	[reply] [d/l]