Can I access file of window platform from HP-UX system using samba ?

[Li XiaoMing]

Hi, Can I access the file shared from the windows system when I install the CIFS client or just the samba binary from the www.samba.org on my HP-UX machine ?

thanks.
Li.

[Marcel Boon]

Hi,

No, you can't, your NT-box has to be a NFS-Server. look at "hummingbird" or "SFU from microsoft".

Marcel

[Andreas Voss]

Hi,

with CIFS client you are able to mount a windows directory to your HP-UX box (cifsmount).
This is only available with HP-UX 11.00.
The software from samba.org (for HP-UX) has no mount feature included.

Regards

[Stefan Schulz · Accepted solution]

Sorry to correct you both,

SAMBA has a smbclient which you can of course use to access files on a windows share.

The windows box has not to be a NFS Server and the smbclient is not limited to the CIFS package on HP-UX 11. SAMBA with an working smbclient is also available on HP-UX 10.xx. But in difference to the CIFS package on HP-UX 11 you cant (as far as i know) mount the Windows share to your filesystem. The smbclient acts more like a ftp program.

Hope this helps. Stefan

[Li XiaoMing]

Hi,Thanks to all.

I just install the samba2.0.8 from the samba.org . And it is successful for me to smbclient a share from a pc ( win98 ) on the hpux11 system . Yes ,it's ftp-like , and I can get/put the data between the unix/pc very well . Stefan is very right?I

It seems the HP CIFS client can't do the above. especially that the cifsmount/cifsclient command should be executed by ROOT .

Anybody knows what the HP cifs client can do ? It just only cifsmount the UNIX share not the PC to UNIX ?