Mapping drive from PC to Unix box

[TDub]

Does anyone know of any inexpensive Windows or Unix sofware that will allow you to map a network drive from a PC running Win9X to a Unix box running Solaris 8? I have tried downloading precompiled Samba packages for Solaris 8 from sites such as sunfreeware.com and freeware4sun.com and have had no luck installing the packages. I get a message "bad datastream in table of contents" when I run the pkgadd command. I even tried downloading binaries from samba.org and received the same error. Thanks in advance for any advice.

[vitalstatistix]

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Originally posted by TDub:
... downloading binaries from ...

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You didnt download them as BINARY stream, did ya?

[Statica]

Dont uncompress thru Nutscape, use gzip.

How did you use pkgadd?

Sometimes its beneficial to use gzip then run pkgadd without entering the directory.

[TDub]

Thanks Static! I ran pkgadd -d outside of the directory and the package installed. Now I just need to start the daemon and map a drive!

[Statica]

TDub:
Cheers on getting it to work, SMB is simply terrific!

& Thanx to VTSTX on his help, valuable pointer to look into for that error

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