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AnthonySN
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Re: files between servers

yes as you said they objecting to CIFS also.

the files are to be processed by the application on the standalone server and then printed
Patrick Wallek
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>>yes as you said they objecting to CIFS also.

Well, I would now ask the auditors how exactly you are supposed to do this since they object to the possible solutions so far.
OldSchool
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Re: files between servers

"They" don't want CIFS, and "they" don't want NFS, which are the two classic file sharing methods. ("They" being the auditors)

How to "they" propose to solve this? I don't know if you can multi-home something off a SAN that would work (never looked into it that far).

You also might be able to do something with a psuedo-printer, but its been a long time since I've had to mess w/ such (using lp to move the file and so forth)
Steven E. Protter
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Re: files between servers

Shalom,

You can set up password free file transfer using openssh on HP-UX (secure shell)

http://www.hpux.ws/?p=10

This is secure, however I really think your auditors need a clue.

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Steven Schweda
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Re: files between servers

See if I understand this.

Some user on a cluster somehow creates some
kind of file on a local file system?

Some user on some non-cluster system wishes
to send this file to some printer somewhere?

I'm sure that I don't know:

Where the printer is connected, and whether
the non-cluster system can use it directly.

Whether a user on the non-cluster system
could send some kind of request (remsh, ssh,
...) to a cluster system to get this print
job done from the cluster system.

Whether actual file sharing is even needed.


As usual, it might be more helpful to provide
a clear description of the real situation and
the real requirements, rather than asking
how to implement some particular scheme which
may or may not be possible, especially when
every suggestion elicits more constraints
which should have been provided in the
original problem statement.
AnthonySN
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Re: files between servers

we are planning to install CIFS and check how it works and if the security team is ok with it, we may go ahead with CIFS.
Jupinder Bedi
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Re: files between servers

yes you can ... here are docs.



CIFS/9000 Server Configuration.

http://docs.hp.com/en/B8725-90021/ch01s05.html

CIFS/9000 Client Configuration.

http://docs.hp.com/en/B8724-90022/ch02s02.html

-HTH
All things excellent are as difficult as they are rare
AnthonySN
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Re: files between servers

these docs are related to hpux 11.0
anyways i will check fot it thanks.
AnthonySN
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Re: files between servers

we are right now tryng the scp option.
after which we plan to implement CIFS.
one doubt is whether to configure cifs server on both the cluster nodes or one
Steven Schweda
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Re: files between servers

> We need to share filesystem [...]

> we are right now tryng the scp option.

It might be good to decide what you really
need to do.