topic Re: networking cross platforms in Operating System - HP-UX

networking cross platforms

Deanna Helie — Thu, 06 Nov 2008 18:45:31 GMT

I need some suggestions on networking my UNIX servers on our DNS domain WIN server. I have a program that executs on the a XP workstation that calls another program on my UNIX box using RPC messaging calls. I want to know if anyone has mapped a network connection drive on an Windows workstation to a UNIX box and was able to kick off a background process?

Can I map a logical drive to a UNIX box instead of a network connection drive?

any suggestion or ideas would be greatly appreciated. I am playing around with some ideas at this time.

thanks

Re: networking cross platforms

Dennis Handly — Fri, 07 Nov 2008 11:57:23 GMT

Are you talking about mounting HP-UX exported filesystems through NFS?

Re: networking cross platforms

likid0 — Fri, 07 Nov 2008 13:03:48 GMT

I'm not sure what you mean, but if you wan't to mount a windows disk on a HP-UX server, you have to share the windows disk and use cifs on HP-UX to mount it.

Re: networking cross platforms

Deanna Helie — Fri, 14 Nov 2008 15:04:19 GMT

Good Morning;

I was wondering about creating a network drive connect from windows to HP.

Re: networking cross platforms

Heironimus — Fri, 14 Nov 2008 20:28:25 GMT

File sharing is (relatively) easy. If you want to map a directory on the HP server as a drive on the PC, install and configure HP's "CIFS Server" package. If you want to mount a file share from the Windows PC as a directory on the HP server, install and configure the "CIFS Client" package.

Full-blown RPC support is a completely different matter and depends on what you're trying to do.