How to mapping folder from WinNT to HP-UX server

[Hoang Minh Tuan]

Hi All,

I have a task in which mapping a folder from WinNT to HP-UX to become a file system in Unix server like NFS mechanism. I know how to configurate NFS to map between Unix servers but as I know it only support Unix servers and I also know a Samba software could map file system from Unix to WinNT server.
My question is what software and how to configurate to map folder from NT to Unix server (especially HP-UX server).

Thanks and highly appreciate your help,
HMT

[Joseph Loo]

hi,

use HP CIFS (previously called Samba). u may like to read the doc before beginning your configuration:

http://docs.hp.com/en/B8724-90067/ch01s01.html

download here:
CIFS client:
http://h20293.www2.hp.com/portal/swdepot/displayProductInfo.do?productNumber=B8724AA

CIFS server:
http://h20293.www2.hp.com/portal/swdepot/displayProductInfo.do?productNumber=B8725AA

regards.

[Olivier Masse]

If for whatever reason you can't or don't want to use CIFS, an alternative is using the free Windows Unix Services which include an NFS server. I never tried it though, so your mileage may vary. CIFS might be easier to implement if you don't have admin access on the Wintel box.

It can be downloaded here:
http://www.microsoft.com/windowsserversystem/sfu/default.mspx

Good luck

[Hoang Minh Tuan]

Thanks Joseph for quick reply,

I followed your link but as I know CIFS server sofware only support HP-UX so that it doesn't meet my techical requirement (meaning Windows CIFS server and HP-UX CIFS client).
If you have already installed and used it, could you please give me in more detail?

HMT

[Victor_101]

hi ,
i think these links should help solve your problem..

http://www.samba.org/samba/docs/man/smbclient.1.html
http://www.samba.org/samba/docs/man/smbmount.8.html

cheers
Victor

[Stefan Schulz]

Hi,

Joseph pointed in the right direction. You can us CIFS Client for this. If you have a CIFS Client installed you can access Windows shares and mount them to your HP-UX filesystem.

You need to start the cifsclient. Then you can access the Windows share with:

cifsmount /// / -U

If you stop the cifsclient (cifsclient -stop) the Windows share is unmounted.

Hope this helps

Regards Stefan

[Philippe Vervoort]

Hello,

On HP-UX, do the following:
cifsclient start
( this starts the samba client daemon - see /opt/cifsclient )
cifsmount /// / -U -P
( see cifsmount -h )

This should mount your Windows share under the directory ( which must already exist ! ).

[Hoang Minh Tuan]

Thanks Stephan and Philipe,

I do following your guide but when I give out the command cifsmount //10.1.20.252/share /windows -U Admin -P 123 it displayed:
"LOC: Netbios session refused
LOC: Netbios session refused"
so that I can't mount win's folder.

10.1.20.252: windows IP address
share: win shared folder
windows: mountpoint at HP-UX server

[Stefan Schulz · Accepted solution]

Hi again,

i remember that i also had a problem using an IP Adress. As far as i remember the solution was to include the windows server in the /etc/host with its full and short name.

Like:

172.10.10.1 servname.domain.com servname

This did the trick here, hope this will work for you too.

Regards Stefan

[sombriks]

hello all,

i have the very same problem, cifslogin/cifsmount at all

here i have an public share so i don't specify any username/password, but if i try "ls" on the mount point i get "not found".

already tried name alias, but it doesn't work.

but if i try to mount a samba share (i.e. linux machine instead windows) it works pretty well...

any advices?