hi all,

i have a microsoft domain, with the active directory technology. now, everyone in the domain need to logon to the domain and pushing files transparently from linux to microsoft and microsoft to linux. any advices to make this happen? please give me some guidances. thanks

If "everyone" needs to do it "transparently" your best bet is to set up samba on the Linux host and either share a filesystem out to all the Windoze clients so they can map it as a drive as they would from any other file server. After the initial map on the workstations they can simply write to and read from the mapped drive.
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Windoze allows you to do ftp so if you have ftp enabled on the Linux machine then they can do ftp back and forth instead but this isn't "transparent" to the user.
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You can use scp (secure copy - part of ssh setup) by downloading and installing the free software WinSCP on each of the Windoze workstations. This allows you to use an explorer type of view to do drag and drop of files from one to the other. It does however require the user to login to the Linux server (you can set this up with profiles in WinSCP). Again not quite as "transparent to the user.

thanks.... jlighter!

I think winscp is great. i like it. I can easily pushing files from windows to linux transparently. i think every client can do it since my windows clients can be authenticated via ssh in the linux boxes. now, my question is how can a linux user to push file to windows transparently?? are there any reverse tool of winscp? or ssh or scp for windows available?? thanks??

How do the windows clients push stuff to each other? If it's just MS file sharing then you can use smbmount to mount windows shares on linux clients. You could also use smbclient if you just need to test a connection or do something quickly without going through a mount; it a pain to use for much more than that, though. I hear there are some network neighborhood type programs for X that may be what you're looking for, but I've never really looked into them.

can a linux machine mount to a windows machine easily after windows is shared via smbfs??

Samba is a full implementation of the Windows SMB networking protocol, so a Linux system can participate in a network both as a client (sharing other people's drives) and as a server (having disks to share).

There are quite a few shops I've been in where Linux and Samba are running as the primary domain-controller and as a file server, because Samba doesn't have silly little license-count restrictions! And of course the systems are cheaper, too.

If what you really want is to share an existing Windows shared drive from within the Linux environment, it is quite easy to do that. It's much like any other type of network filesystem...