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From - Wed Oct  3 10:56:11 2001
From: "Tony Matthews" <tony.matthews@SpamJam.amsjv.com>
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Subject: Re: Mounting WinNT Shares using VisionFS SMB Client
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Sorted!

First of all, I was puzzled as to how to clear out the junk entries I had
made in the SMB Client configuration file /usr/vision/vfsprofile/user.prf,
so that I was sure where I stood.

I had tried sll the various options to the 'visionfs client --remove'
command, but the user.prf file didn't seem to change, and if I moved it out
of the way it got recreated when
'visionfs clientadmin --start' was run. So where was the master copy being
kept??.

Eventually, I spotted that there was a .vfsclient file in the home
directory, and that this file and the user.prf file were being kept in step
each time the 'visionfs clientadmin --start' command was run.

So I renamed .vfsclient to .vfsclient.old.

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I then worked out that the .vfsclient file was created/modified when
'visionfs client --wizard' was run, so now I was in a position to be sure
there was only one entry in this file, which could not be overridden by any
of my previous mistaken attempts.

It then didn't take many attempts to find out that attempting to mount a
share (using the S option to the wizard) just would not work, so I tried
again with the D (domain) option.

At the Windows Username prompt, I entered the windows username necessary to
access the share (WinUser).
At the Domain prompt, I entered our site.company.com domain.
At the Password prompt, I entered the windows password for the above windows
username.
Then I restarted the SBM Client with 'visionfs clientadmin --restart', and
hey presto, I can now
cd to /smb/root/ntsrv1/backup and there are all the files!

I'm not entirely sure why the D option works, or why using S option didn't,
but so what.

The .vfsclient file contains the following for anyone interested enough to
pick through it:

## This configuration file is used by SCO VisionFS.
## DO NOT edit this file by hand. This file is stored as UTF8, not ASCII.
## If VisionFS reports that this file is corrupt, use the visionfs command
## to fix it.
[nfsserver/shares/smb/root/*/winname={(WinUser)}]
[nfsserver/shares/smb/root/*/*/winname={(WinUser)}]
[nfsserver/shares/smb/root/*/*/password={(842FF567B37298DA)}]
[nfsserver/shares/smb/root/dummy={(0)}]
[nfsserver/shares/smb/root/*/domain={(site.company.com)}]
[nfsserver/shares/smb/root/*/password={(842FF567B37298DA)}]

Thanks for the help guys, I hope this saves someone else some of the hassle.

Tony M.

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