Sanjay Darisi wrote:

> 
> May be an OT here, I believe there are windows server gurus too here. Is 
> it possible to access all the partitions and dirs on a win2k/XP or 
> server computer from Linux, not thru samba though. With samba, I know we 
> can access all the network shares on the win machines. Is there a way to 
> connect to windows machine by admin username/passwd and access all the 
> drives not just the network shares. Its in a Local area network i'm 
> talking abt. Like without having our client component running on windows 
> machines, Is it possible? I know of few client components sitting on 
> windows computers and let you connect I guess. But that beats the 
> purpose. Or is it an impossible and dumb question that I have?? Any 
> ideas/suggestions? I guess with samba we can't do rite? Only if they r 
> shared we can access rite?

Requires Samba, but you connect to the remote systems default shares that ALL 
copies of Windows have enabled by default for remote backing up.  I can get my 
entire drives contents by going to:

\\machine_name\C$
\\machine_name\D$
etc... (where C or D is the actual drive letter you want to access).
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