[geeks] Weird file sharing question

[velociraptor]

On 8/10/05, Francois Dion <francois.dion at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 8/9/05, Mike Meredith <mike at redhairy1.demon.co.uk> wrote:
> > On Tue, 9 Aug 2005 16:06:12 -0400, Francois Dion wrote:
> > > [A]<---->[B]<------->[switch]<-------[C]
> > >
> > > Is there something trivial I'm missing?
> >
> > Turn on IP routing on box B. Don't know how well that would work with
> > 2003 or whether there's another reason why it won't work, but it's
> > certainly what I'd try :-
> >
> > http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;323339
>
> Even before getting to routing between [A] and [C], even with just two
> machines, whereas under Solaris I can NFS mount another machine and
> then share it thru Samba, It is easily demonstrated that WIndows will
> not let you share non local drives.
>
> Simple test: on a windows 2003 server (even on windows 2000 server or
> desktop), mount a remote share as a local drive, say G:.
>
> then: net share nextlayer=g:\
> "The resource named cannot be shared
> More help is available by typing NET HELPMSG 3736."
>
> ok: net helpmsg 3736
> "The resource named cannot be shared
> EXPLANATION
> You cannot share this resource.
> ACTION
> No action is needed."
>
> SIGH...
>
> A Solaris host would have no trouble taking the place of [B]. However,
> that machine is under corporate authority, and we cannot do that. If
> it had been me, we wouldn't have a single windows server...
>
> Any other suggestion? There has got to be a way to get around that.
> What makes Windows decide it can or cannot share (a NAS for example).

Left field idea...samba under cygwin on the Windows box?  Haven't
even googled, just tossing it out there.

=Nadine=