How to share Unix FS into WIN2000

[sdip]

Hi,

I belive only SAMBA can help to share any UNIX FS to WIN2000 server.

In my situation, I need to share an Unix FS to one of our WIN server. Both servers are sitting in different domain, which made me more confused. How can I allow that WIN2000 box to see my Unix (HP-UX 11.11) FS & share the same.

Please advise

[Rajesh SB]

Hi,

I hope you are familiar with Samba configuration. For easy way, use SWAT (Samba Webbased Admin Tool).

Accessing the Unix FS share on Win2000 is as simple as between Windows systems. No special, just use share name of samba server by mapping or Searching the Unix server you can see the avaiable share.

Regards,
Rajesh

[Indira Aramandla]

Hi Shiv,

Different operating systems have different network share techniques or protocols. In any network share relationship there is a server (the machine on which the file is located) and a client (the machine from which the file is being accessed).

Microsoft - SMB Filesharing: Microsoft SMB filesharing utilises the Common Internet FileSystem (CIFS). It was mainly designed for file sharing between Microsoft Windows machines. Any Windows machine can act as both client or server using SMB. The Network Neighbo(u)rhood icon on the Windows desktop allows a user to browse available SMB shares.

It should be noted that server capabilities of Windows 9x and Windows ME are limited compared to Windows NT Server and Windows 2000 Server.

A commercial product called Dave can be used as a Macintosh client. Unix machines can access the files for transfer using smbclient and GNU/Linux machines can "mount" as a network share using smbmount.

Samba - SMB clone filesharing: Unix and GNU/Linux can serve "SMB" shares to Windows and other SMB clients using the Samba SMB Clone ((ee http://www.samba.org/. Samba is the preferred way for Unix to share to Windows clients.

NetWare - Novell's Filesharing: NetWare is a server operating system which shares files under a proprietary protocol. Clients exist for: DOS; all versions of Microsoft Windows and Apple Macintosh. There is also bi-directional file sharing available between NetWare and UNIX via the NetWare/NFS gateway.

GNU/Linux has a free Netware client (NCP). GNU/Linux can also mimic much of the Novell file server functionality but this is not recommended. Samba provides more appropriate file and print serving within the University.

Appleshare (AFP) - MacOS filesharing: Apple Macs share using the Appleshare protocol. Windows NT Server has Windows NT Services for Macintoshes (See also http://www.microsoft.com/NTServer/nts/exec/feature/Macintosh.asp

Unix and GNU/Linux can also participate in Appleshare fileserving.

The AppleShare IP software allows Macs to share via AFP and SMB (to Windows and other SMB clients).

Unix - Network File System (NFS): Typically used for Unix to Unix file sharing although clients exist for Windows and Macintoshes. NFS generally requires administrator access on both server and client.

GNU/Linux supports NFS Version 3. Macintoshes can act as NFS servers with MacNFS (Commercial) software.

For Windows machines NFS is probably not a suitable option though if desperate for a client you could look at PC-NFS, which is a commercial package.

IA

[RAC_1]

You surely can use samba. As long as network alllows you to see hp-ux system from different domain, you can access it and share a share.

Also, you can use hp's cifs (hp's samba, you can say)

[Svetoslav Gyurov]

Hi,

Its easy to share your Uxix FS to Windows, you just need to set your workgroup and access your box by its hostname. An important thing is the method of authentication, because you have two domains and if your Unix server is not joined to any of them you can use "security = share" and there will be no authentication and just some restrictions depending on how you share your directories. After that you can access your Unix FS by its hostname or by IP from your Windows Exporer


Best Regards,
sve

[Rajesh SB]

Indira confused with author name :-), wrote as shiv.
As, you are responding him contsuly...

Regards,
Rajesh

[sdip]

Thanks to all,

That means I need to add that Unix server to that WIN domain to allow WIN server to access that server. Am I right ?

Please find the attached smb.conf & advise me if it is fine.

[global] workgroup = AAA
netbios name = unixs1
security = DOMAIN
encrypt passwords = Yes
update encrypted = Yes
password server = win201.bbc.com
syslog = 3
syslog only = Yes

[SHFS] path = /local/shfs
username = user.shfs,root
guest ok = Yes

[Darren Prior]

Hi,

If you want to use domain security within Samba/CIFS then your CIFS server needs to be within one of the domains. Then you need the other Windows domain to trust this domain in order to be able to authenticate.

regards,

Darren.

[Jose Antonio Orozco]

Another way, depending of your app, is to gave to Win2K the responsability of the filesystem, with a Windows NFS Server from a 3rd party.
In this kind of products, Microsoft made free their product "Services for Unix 3.5", which included several utilities, included NFS Server

Doing it this way, you could avoid the mantenience of Windows Server DOMAIN relationships. Also, you can restrict connections to your HP server.