How to configure a Microsoft Windows PC as NFS client to access HP unix NFS server directory

[Yaboto]

Hi,

Please help me configure a windows client to access a shared directory on HP unix NFS server.
What are the procedures involved ?

Regards,
Berenger

[Luk Vandenbussche]

check this link

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/324055

A unix directory must be exported under NFS to be able to access it from windows

An alternative is CIFS server on your HPUX server

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

[Doug O'Leary]

Hey;

From the HP side, all you have to do is export the filesystem as you normally would.

From the windows side, that's a different story. NFS doesn't come standard with windows. You'd need something like PCNFS to actually do that.

Are you sure you don't mean samba or CIFS? (If that's the case, then ignore the comment about exporting the filesystem...)


Doug

[OldSchool]

cifs/samba or windows services for unix is available

[Yaboto]

Hi,

How will I take advantage of "Windows services for Unix" module to configure a windows client to access a shared directory on HP Unix NFS server.

Regards,
Berenger

[OldSchool]

refer to docs here:

http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb463212.aspx

[Court Campbell]

This should help:

http://doc.gwos.org/index.php/MountNFS

Follow the instructions starting at the point "Configure Windows".

[Steven E. Protter]

Shalom Berenger,

What we do:
We have an HP-UX server with CIFS/9000 samba providing access to the NFS shares to windows users who also happen to have a unix ID.

We have a series of cron jobs to keep everything in sync and let us move peoples home directory around from disk to disk on NFS.

We also have one Linux server thats got LDAP/ADS/Samba integration that provides users without unix user id's access to NFS shares, essentially re-exported to Samba.

IT works reasonably well and we hope to move toward single sign on some day.

SEP

[Yaboto]

Hi,

One question, please:
Can I have server for NFS and client for NFS both configured on the same windows machine ?

Regards,
Berenger

[Court Campbell]

yes.

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/324086