Accessing other os files (OpenInsight 32-Bit)
At 21 SEP 2005 04:33:23PM dsig _at_ sigafoos.org wrote:
I am sure the must be a way but haven't needed until now ..
I need to .. say read a file from a unix box. i know the ip and i have access. Is there a way other than FTP to read that file .. ? some way read and write to another os.
I do have ftp etc and that is all working .. just wondering abou this.
and no .. they wont install samba because of security risks .. the it guys are pretty anal about slowing every bit of development down
dsig
At 21 SEP 2005 04:45PM John Bouley wrote:
I think you are talking about differences between Windows filing system and Unix. Perhaps there is a way to install a Unix client onto your Windows Pc. Then you should be able to map drives and open files…
HTH,
John
At 21 SEP 2005 06:06PM dsig _at_ sigafoos.org wrote:
Unix Client? Do you have a for instance?
dsig
At 22 SEP 2005 09:17AM John Bouley wrote:
Not sure if this is what you want? I have never done this!
http://www.microsoft.com/windowsserversystem/sfu/default.mspx
HTH,
John
At 26 SEP 2005 07:17PM Gerald Lovel wrote:
DSig,
I have never quite done this, but here's the basic outline of what you want:
set up your own Linux box, and use NFS to access the customer's Unix host over IP. This is built into Linux and Unix. Then share your Linux box with your Windows over Samba. This is built into Linux.
This way, your customer is working in a pure Unix world, and you are taking responsibility for the cross-platform issues. You still get to work in Windows but use Linux for communication between systems.