Need help mapping drive over WAN

[weagle]

OK, i am new to the WAN business. What is the proper technique for mapping a drive over a corporate LAN? I am working on a NT 4 machine and trying to connect to UNIX box running NFS mounting software. I can ping the UNIX box and telnet in, but I cannot map. HELP!!!

 

[PC Freak]

easiest way i know.

click start, find, computers. Type in the computers name.

double click that computer when it comes up. you will then see the dir's that are shared. Right click on the one you want and click "Map this Drive" also remember you can check the check box to automatically restore the connection when you reboot.

Hope that helps

 

[twren]

go to the command line and type "net use (Driveletter): \\(ip address)\(network share). eg.
net use G: \\192.168.1.245\shared

 

[spidey07]

I don't think you can just try to map the drive like a remote NT system.

You have NFS client software running on the NT box right? Can't you setup the NFS client to attach to the remote file system and do the mapping from there?

What NFS software are you using?

 

[weagle]

I have interdrive software if I need to run a NFS client, but I thought there might be a way to do it without all that stuff. I tried the "net use" commands and it just throws off an error. Someone suggested Samba. Any ideas on this?