Migrating files to Windows

[Miguel Cuesta]

Hi!

Sometimes, I have to migrate a lot of folders from HPUX to Windows.

My procedure is:

+ By using a shell script I created, I check that there are not two files with the same path and name in uppercase and lowercase (Windows does not distinguish between them).

+ With a Windows FTP client, I 'download' files.

I would be extremely obliged if anybody could share their experiences with me.

[Patrick Wallek]

You don't say what version of HP-UX, or Windows, you are using, but if you are on HP-UX 11.X then you could use HPs CIFS/9000 product. There is a client and a server version and it allows you to connect to Windows shared drives, or share UNIX filesystems so that Windows machines can get to them.

If you had this, you could possibly script the whole thing and not have to worry about using FTP.

Here are the links to the CIFS/9000 pages:

http://www.software.hp.com/cgi-bin/swdepot_parser.cgi/cgi/displayProductInfo.pl?productNumber=B8724AA

http://www.software.hp.com/cgi-bin/swdepot_parser.cgi/cgi/displayProductInfo.pl?productNumber=B8725AA

By the way, CIFS/9000 is free!

[Miguel Cuesta]

I'm using version 9.

[David Navarro]

HI,
In version 9, you need lanmanager, but now that old version have no support from HP.
Try with samba

[Patrick Wallek]

Version 9? You do realize that HP-UX 9 is an unsupported version don't you? It's been out of support for several years, prior to Y2K.

Since you are on 9, that kill the CIFS/9000 idea. You could check into Samba, http://www.samba.org but you would probably need to download the source and compile it yourself. Even if you did that, I am still not 100 percent sure that it would work on HP-UX 9.X.

[Miguel Cuesta]

SAMBA
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Binaries are developed for HPUX 10.20 and 11, and I do not feel like to compile it.

But there is a problem, if there are two files on Unix (one in uppercase ans the other one, in lowercase), when migrating via Samba to Windows, wich is the effect???

I prefer to check if there are not files with the same Windows name.

On the HPUX machine, there is a NFS Server, so I can browse directories from Windows.

I use FTP because this protocol checks proccess, and I do not rely on 'Cut&Paste' Windows method.

[David Navarro]

Hi, Miguel, I have worked with samba in hp-ux 9.X. But I don't know where you can find it compiled.
Unix files have more atributes than DOS files.If you want to share files or transfer, you must be careful transfering or when you create that files.
I have Advanced Server working ( is an evolution of lanmanager). When I create a file with one letter in uppercase, I can't see it from my pc. That is, advanced server doesn't share files with uppercase letters.

If you share files in DOS and Unix, is better to use any software that manages those files. That's my opinion.