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Sharity-Light - connecting Microsoft to FreeBSD 3 November 1998

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The main page for Sharity-Light is http://www.obdev.at/Products/shlight.html.

You might also want to see the NFS article.

NOTE: If you want to access FreeBSD file systems from your Microsoft box, you want Samba.

3 November

Today I wanted to try accessing my NT box from my FreeBSD box. So I installed the Sharity-Light port.

Installing Sharity-Light

If you need to know how to install a port, here is a section from the FreeBSD Handbook.

Here's what I did. Note that I had CD#3 from FreeBSD 2.2.7 in my CD drive.

mount /cdrom
cd /usr/ports/net/sharity-light
make install
umount /cdrom

The Sharity-Light files are installed in /usr/local/sbin.

Sharing an MS File system

This section deals with sharing an MS file system. I've done this from within Windows NT. But the process for Windows 95/98 should be similar. In this example, I'll be sharing c:\temp and allowing only the user Barny to access it. The following steps are performed on the MS system.

start Windows NT explorer
right click on c:\temp
click on Sharing
click on Shared As
click on Permissions
click on Remove to remove Everyone's access
click on Add
click on Show Users
click on the user you wish to add (in my example, I clicked on Barny)
click on Add
select the Type of Access you wish to provide. I choose Read.
click on OK
click on OK
click on OK

This should now allow the directory to be shared. The next section describes how to access this share from FreeBSD.

Accessing an MS file system

In the previous section, we published, or created, a share. In this section, we will access that share from our FreeBSD box. The NT box from which we issued that share is named NT1. So we will mount that share under /nt1.

mkdir /nt1
cd /usr/local/sbin
./shlight //NT1/TEMP /nt1 -U barny -P password

where...

is the mount point we are going to use
//NT1/TEMP: is the share issued on the NT1 box.
-U Barny: specified the user id
-P password: specified the password

Accessing an MS file system

To unmount the file system, issue the following command:

./unshlight /nt1

Documentation

The best online documentation I've found is the following:

ftp://ftp.obdev.at/pub/Products/Sharity-Light/Sharity-Light.README

Limitations

You will find that dates and times are not correct on the files from NT4 file systems. For more information, please refer to the documentation mentioned in the previous section.

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