External file systems

[Kevin Cherubini_1]

I'm using a HP9000 D330 running HP-UX B.11.00. I also have a bunch of Compaq server on my network running NT server 4.0. All servers communicate using TCP/IP.

I'd like to set up a folder on one of my NT servers that can be accessed via my HP-UX operating system. This would be extremely useful for scheduling cron jobs to create txt files that Excel can import and for dropping files from MS Exchange that my Oracle database can upload.

Is this sort of thing possible, and if so how can I go about it?

[Alan Casey]

This is very much possable.
You will need to install software on the HP machine as well as on your NT machines to do it but it is quite simple.


Hummingbird have such a product:
www.hummingbird.com

[Ian Dennison_1 · Accepted solution]

I have always found sharing NT file systems with UNIX to be fraught with problems. I prefer the other way; UNIX File Systems being shared with NT. The product is Samba, which should come standard on 11.0 builds.

Can you use 'ftp' to transfer files rather than sharing Disk Systems? An ftp script from HP-UX is fairly simple to set up.

Share and Enjoy! Ian

[Robin Wakefield]

Hi Kevin,

have a look at:

http://www.xlink.com/eval.htm

Rgds, Robin

[harry d brown jr]

Samba AKA cifs9000 (for hp)

live free or die
harry

[Chris Vail]

There are all kinds of ways to do this. The best fit is for you to determine.

You can enable NFS services on any WIN/NT or WIN2000. These are not installed or enabled by default but a brief consultation with M$'s website or support services should give you enough info to make this work. This would allow you to NFS mount an NT/2000 directory on your Unix system. Then merely direct the output or input from/to your Unix application to the directory where the NT filesystem is mounted.

Alternatively, you can obtain the CIFS9000 stuff from HP at http://www.software.hp.com/cgi-bin/swdepot_parser.cgi/cgi/displayProducts.pl?group_type=category&group_name=NSM

This allows you to mount a Unix directory on the NT box. Unix systems are a heckuva lot easier to administer, and they're more stable. So this would be my first recommendation.

There are several other ways to do this, but these two should be the first you look into.


Chris