Accessing exported filesystem with windows based clients

[Dayanand Naik]

Hi folks,

I have exported a file system /tmp as read-only from my development server.
NFS is enabled, I want to access it from Windows based system. How shall i
go abt doing it. Will i need any third part software for the same.

Sugestion welcomed.

Regards,
Dayanand Naik.

[linuxfan]

Hi Dayanand,

To mount your unix filesystems on your windows machines you can use samba (http://samba.org)

If you are using HP-UX 11.0 then HP has a free software (CIFS/9000 which is basically a repackaged version of samba, needs a reboot to install)

Here's a readme on CIFS
http://www.software.hp.com/cgi-bin/swdepot_parser.cgi/cgi/displayProductInfo.pl?productNumber=B8725AA

You can download CIFS from
https://software.hp.com/cgi-bin/swdepot_parser.cgi/cgi/try.pl?productNumber=B8725AA&date=

-HTH
Ramesh

[Santosh Nair_1]

Hi,

You can use either CIFS/9000 server (available for HPUX 11.0) or samba (otherwise) to export your filesystems from the HP machine to the Windows (95/98/2000/NT) machines. CIFS/9000 is HP's port of samba for the HPUX platform.

You can download CIFS/9000 from:

http://www.software.hp.com/cgi-bin/swdepot_parser.cgi/cgi/displayProductInfo.pl?productNumber=B8725AA

and samba from:

http://www.samba.org

Setup is very easy, especially using the included swat web based configuration manager. Hope this helps.

-Santosh

[Printaporn_1]

you can install/configure samba on host OR
enable NFS in client side (windows) by product
like PC-NFS
because in NT it use SMB for drive sharing wheras in UNIX , we're using NFS.

[Volker Borowski]

Hi,

there are several third party products available. We use OMNI-NFS, which has nothing to do with OMNI-Anything from HP :-)

Search the net. We got a fully functional trial-version (30 days) by download, and could test everything before we decided to buy it. But I do not remember where we got it :-(

Hope this helps
Volker