[geeks] Weird file sharing question

[Francois Dion]

On 8/5/05, Phil Stracchino <phil.stracchino at speakeasy.net> wrote:
> Francois Dion wrote:
> > Let's say you have a windows machine or a unix machine running samba.
> > It is only seen by a Windows 2003 server, and mounted as a drive.
> >
> > How would you share that mounted drive?
>
> I don't think I understand the question, because I'm not seeing the
problem.

Detailed version:

[A]<---->[B]<------->[switch]<-------[C]

I have a Sun Solaris 10 (A) box, with Samba, with full r/w access to
the share, that only a Windows 2003 server (B) can access and see
(direct physical network connection). That Windows 2003 Server (B)
machine has that share mounted as drive Q.

I now have a machine (C) on a different network that can see the
Windows 2003 server (B) and whatever that is on it that has been
shared.

So now, I want the Windows 2003 server (B) to share its drive Q so
that machine (C) can gain access to drive Q on server (B).
Authentication is done by server (B) and machine (A) cannot
authenticate or handle requests from anything beside from server (B).
(that means not even an NFS gateway is possible).

Windows wont allow you to share a drive that is non local, it appears.
Is there a way around it?

I also tried NFS on (A) and MS SFU on server (B), mounted a drive Q
through that, but again, Windows wont allow you to share.

Is there something trivial I'm missing?

Francois