Mounting NT disks on a UNIX server

If you're looking for a cheap solution, use smbclient to put and get files from your pc.
If you connect to a pc (which must have enabled File and Print Sharing) with smbclient, you have ftp-like functionality. So you may use  ls  to get a list of files, and then in a second step get these files.
smbclient can read from stdin, so it's easy to write scripts doing a backup.

The more expensive way is to buy and install any kind of NFS client on your pc (for example http://www.wrq.com)

Thanks, but im aware of these solutions. As part of the backup process I need to be able to check source code back into a repository on the UNIX box, via SCCS tools such as Sparcworks. So im afraid this wouldnt really help. Installing NFS clients on each of the PC's, although possible, would be less convenient and prove to be rather expensive.
 

how about smbtar

You could use Networker (www.legato.com), it consists of a server program running in your UNIX box and of clients which send the information to be backed up to the server, then you can retrive information in the client or the server as needed.

Correct me if im wrong, but although "networker" will meet my backup needs it will not allow me to physically mount disks. So my problem with the source code repository will still exist?
   

did you check smbtar?

I think you can divide the problem in two parts: the backup part and the centralized repository part.

The backup part must get solved with Networker or something similar.

If you need a centralized source code repository why don't you do it the other way around?: mount Solaris disks in the PC's (samba will do this for you) and then you even could use the standard backup commands.

   About the smbmount command, it is strange but it is mentioned in the manpages but I can't find it in my distribution!  I tried to compile it in my Solaris machine (the source code is there) but it complains about a minimum version of Linux! So it looks like it is not implemented in Solaris, but since it is derived from smbclient (that works in Solaris) maybe a little bit or working the code could make it compile....

smbmount just compiles on Linux (failed on AIX, IRIX, HP-UX and Solaris with incompatible header files).
Needs more investigation in the source, probably the reason is that only Linux can re-export mounted filesystems (so far).

Im rejecting this answer because ahoffman's answer is the best solution so far. I wasnt aware that you could tar up the pc's shared directories, without first having to mount them on the unix box. But my problem with the repository still remains. Mounting the Sun disks on the pcs is not really a viable solution. For the source code on the pcs to remain under SCCS  they would have to be left on the mounted disks, thus any compiling would have to be performed over the network. This would be too slow, and generate unnecessary network traffic.  
 

ahoffman, are you saying if I employ a linux server. I can use it to mount the pc disks, then export these disks to be them mounted by the Sun box? If so, would this be transparent, (i.e, would the Pc disks then behave as any other mounted disk on the Sun?)

Thanks, ahoffmann I may take you up on that.