[CS-FSLUG] local lan file sharing
Frank Bax
fbax at sympatico.ca
Thu Jan 27 10:56:24 CST 2005
At the office, a new Kyocera KM-3035 was installed last week - this is a
fast network printer/fax/copier/scanner all-in-one unit. There is a
scan-to-pc option (imagine scanning multiple pages as fast as a
photocopier) that only works with a Windows client. It's a small office,
and security is not a big concern, so yesterday I setup the Windows client
on a selected workstation to deposit the scans on a samba server
(OpenBSD). This allows all windows clients to pick up scanned documents in
the same place. I plan to write a script which deletes scans after some
hard-coded time period (a month or two). The office has a few Linux
workstations (Mandrake 9.1). What's the best way for these Linux
workstations to access the scanner files deposited on OpenBSD system? Do I
access them via the samba share that Windows clients use, or is there
another alternative? If you suggest an option, please include some
pros/cons. I have done some access to samba shares from Linux/OpenBSD
before, but it has always been a script that does the mount, some file
transfers, then unmount. I've never had a share "open" for extended
periods. Tim's recent issues with unmounting a share that got disconnected
has me cautious about how to proceed. If a permanent mount point is needed
it will need to be in every users home directory, because users of these
Linux machines don't know anything else.
Frank
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