Advice re: windows/UNIX communication

[Mike Rightmire]

Hey Folks,

I was hoping to get some advice regarding shares between windows and HP-UX. I primarily need my UNIX boxes to be able to see windows shares, however vice versa would be nice too. I know there are a number of software packages available...what would you recommend and what functionality does each provide.

Thanks again for all the help and great advice.
Mike

[Steve Massey_1]

Hi

HP's Advance Server works nicely

Shares Disk and printers by simple command line

ie net share device - or can be done by GUI

Steve

[Devbinder Singh Marway]

You can try installing SAMBA to share files , have a look at this site :-

http://us2.samba.org/samba/about.html

[Darrel Louis]

Hi,

Don't know if you're using hp-ux 11.X.
HP has a replacement for ASU(Advanced Server)
called CIFS.
Check the following:
http://www.hp.com/workstations/products/unix/operating/cifs_faqs.html

http://www.docs.hp.com/hpux/11.0/index.html
And go to CIFS

Good Luck

[Rick Garland · Accepted solution]

The CIFS9000 (hp product) or samba (www.samba.org) will allow this to be done.

The HP CIFS9000 is actually a previous version of samba with their own tweaks.

Last I knew, the latest samba was 2.7 and the CIFS9000 was samba 2.6

[Dan Decker]

Mike,

We have Windows desktops accessing Unix boxes.
We also have Samba Loaded and if I'm not mistaken NFS also has to be setup for the communication to work.

My problem originally was getting 98, ME and Windows Nt desktops to communicate.

By running the attachment I don't have the problem. What the attachment does is it makes an entry in the registry to enable PlaintextPasswords.

Hope this Helps out

DKD

[Mike Rightmire]

Thanks for all the advice. It looks like, for my particular needs, that the HP version of CIFS for HP-UX 11 will suit me best with Samba 7 coming in a close second. I have Samba installed and it seems to be doing what I need, but I need to play with it some more.

I appreciate all the help and good suggestions!

Thanks,
Mike