Sharity
Sharity is a software that will let you connect your Unix computer to any Windows, Samba or other SMB/CIFS Server. Sharity is a cross platform network file system mounting Windows shares transparently, just as if they were part of your local hard disk. I was always looking for a way to mount my windows drives or directories under my unix (Solaris and Linux) server. In Solaris world it was in particular difficult to accomplish, linux is much easier to deal with. On Solaris platform with Samba I was able to view windows partitions but I was unable to mount them. On Linux I was able to mount Windows partitions using samba. Anyway so one day I did come accross Sharity software, did try it and it worked out just great for me. In my previous work and current one as well I did recommend that software and we started to use it. So its not only great for your home unix environment but also for professional environment as well.
Some of Sharity features:
- Superset of Linux smbmount/smbfs functionality.
- Access to directories exported by Windows 95, 98, ME, NT, 2000, 2003, XP, Samba, and others.
- Automatic resource location: Network browsing similar to Windows Network Neighborhood.
- Available for Sun Solaris, HP-UX, SGI IRIX, IBM AIX, Linux, FreeBSD, OpenBSD, Tru64 Unix and Mac OS X. Others on request.
- Secure authentication with NTLM, NTLMv2, NTLMSSP and Kerberos.
- Supports Microsoft’s DFS (Distributed File System).
- Access to Windows 2000 domains: Active Directory browsing and Kerberos authentication.
- Tools to read and modify Windows Access Control Lists (ACLs).
- User interaction with Graphic User Interface (GUI) or command line.
- Keychain database for managing server, share and domain passwords.
- Internationalized for English and German, character set conversion for Asian encodings.
